Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-10-05
Buyer: Salvation Army Housing Association
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 750000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-11-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Salvation Army Housing Association (saha) is seeking to appoint a single supplier to upgrade the existing saha systems to accommodate the loadings required by the newly merged organisation of Chapter 1 and saha and to provide the capacity for future requirements to deliver digital services to customers and to increase the use of electronic systems for staff. The scope will include servers and storage which will be delivered through saha's in house server room together with a backup and a disaster recovery solution to provisioned as cloud services. The solution provided will also need to build on the organisation's adoption of Citrix, both to increase the number of users who access systems through thin client technologies and the increasing processing power which is required to deliver new applications including audio and video.
Saha is seeking to appoint a single supplier to upgrade the existing saha systems to accommodate the loadings required by the newly merged organisation of Chapter 1 and saha and to provide the capacity for future requirements to deliver digital services to customers and to increase the use of electronic systems for staff. The scope will include servers and storage which will be delivered through saha's in house server room together with a backup and a disaster recovery solution to provisioned as cloud services. The solution provided will also need to build on the organisation's adoption of Citrix, both to increase the number of users who access systems through thin client technologies and the increasing processing power which is required to deliver new applications including audio and video.
Saha requires the successful supplier to have completed the implementation by 31.3.2018. This will be a condition of the Contract that is entered into with the successful supplier. Therefore, only those suppliers that are able to meet this timetable should apply for the Contract.
It is envisaged that the Contract with the successful supplier will last for an initial period of 4 years, with three 1 yearly options to extend at Saha's discretion, giving a maximum potential term of 7 years.
The Authority reserves the right to cancel the procurement at any time and not to proceed with all or part of the Contract.
The Authority will not, under any circumstances, reimburse any expense incurred by Applicants in preparing their selection questionnaire or tender submissions.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. A copy of the tender documents for this procurement can be obtained at the Delta eSourcing link below In accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the Selection Questionnaire and the tender documents are being made available to Applicants via the Delta system from the date of issue of this Contract Notice.
However, as the Authority is following the restricted procedure to procure the Contract, interested Applicants are initially only required to submit a completed Selection Questionnaire by the deadline stated in section IV.2.2 of this notice. Only those Applicants that are shortlisted for the tender stage following the Selection Questionnaire evaluation will be required to submit a tender for the Contract in response to the Invitation to Tender (ITT).
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-IT-services:-consulting%2C-software-development%2C-Internet-and-support./JEQ5J47V46

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to the Selection Questionnaire.

Award value: 750000