Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-02
Buyer: Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79400000 | 79410000 | 79411100 | 80000000 | 80500000
Estimated value: 325000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Mid and East Antrim Borough Council wishes to establish a framework agreement which aims to create jobs by helping early stage trading and existing micro and small sized businesses located in Mid and East Antrim to realise and harness their growth potential and provide specialist mentoring to support the business growth aspirations to improve productivity and ultimately create jobs for the client. The framework will be subdivided into 12 lots:
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council wishes to establish a framework agreement which aims to create jobs by helping early stage trading and existing micro and small sized businesses located in Mid and East Antrim to realise and harness their growth potential and provide specialist mentoring to support the business growth aspirations to improve productivity and ultimately create jobs for the Client. The Framework will be subdivided into 12 Lots: 1. Strategic Business Growth 2. Business Planning 3. Leadership and Management 4. Human Resources and Staff Development 5. Financial Management 6. Innovation and New Product Development 7. Marketing 8. Sales 9. Export 10. Legal and IP 11. Customer Experience Management 12. ICT and E Commerce
The successful contractor’s performance on this contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 — contract management — procedures and principles). Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a notice of unsatisfactory performance and this contract may be terminated. A central register of such notices for supplies and services contract swill be maintained and published on the CPD website. Any contractor in receipt of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period of 3 years from the date of issue of the notice. It may also result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy.
CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and incorporated a standstill period of 10 calendar days at the point information on the award of contract was communicated to tenderers. That notification provided full information on the award decision. This provided time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into.


Winner: Johnston Financial Solutions Ltd
Award value: 325000
Number of bids: 45