Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-27
Buyer: Secretary of State for the Home Department
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72200000 | 72300000
Estimated value: 55000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-10-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Contracting Authority intends to identify an Economic Operator(s) to provide the Biometric Matcher Platform and associated Services (BMPS). BMPS delivers across multiple biometric modalities and data sets (which shall include, but not limited to, immigration, citizenship, law enforcement) as part of Home Office Biometrics (HOB) programme.
— the legal entity bidding (or a Key Subcontractor involved in such a bid) for Lot 1 cannot also bid for either of Lot 2 or Lot 3 and vice versa; and
— a legal entity bidding for Lot 2 and/or Lot 3 can win any or both of Lot 2 and Lot 3 by bidding for each of those lots separately and winning that lot on the merits of that bid.
Matcher Service Platform including a Service Bus, Biometric Workflow, Service interface, integration of Matching Engine Software and infrastructure platform;
— Service operation of the overall BMPS including ITIL functions in collaboration with the Authority and other Third Party Suppliers;
— Professional Services including design, guidance, technical specifications, roadmaps, models, planning and hosting requirements for the Matcher Service Platform;
— Collaboration with Matcher Engine Software supplier(s) to provide build, test and operation of the Matcher Service Platform;
In each lot the top ranking responses that meet the minimum overall weighted score criteria will be selected for the ITT stage. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to take through a maximum of five (5) Bidders.
Further information about the procurement procedure adopted is provided in the ITT documentation set.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the initial term for a further period of twenty four (24) months and an additional twelve (12) months. Therefore, the total potential term of the contract is ninety six (96) months from the effective date.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to amend the scale of the requirements at any time during the procurement process, or over the term of the contracts to provide additional BMPS to future modalities and similarly the Economic Operators appointed may also be required to extend BMPS to support any other Central Government Body's.
Lot 2 Matching Engine Software (MES) (minutiae based) Supplier(s) will be selected to provide the following:
— Matching Engine Software (minutiae based) for biometric matching of finger Ten-print, palm print and latent marks to support verification, search and de-duplication of biometric records;
— Professional Services including design, guidance and technical specifications for the Matcher Engine Software;

Eligibility requirements: The Contracting Authority's requirements will be set out in the Selection Questionnaire (SQ) and/or subsequent documents issued during the procurement. A parent company guarantee may be required.

Award value: 55000000