Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-08-16
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 13888444 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Responsibility for some social security benefits is transferring from the UK Government to Scottish Ministers on a phased basis over the next few years. The Scottish Ministers have invested in a case management platform (IBM Social program management (SPM)). This contract provides services to develop, configure and integrate SPM for the disability benefits that will transfer to Scottish Ministers.
1) (a) the name and address of the contracting authority, the subject-matter and value of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system;
(b) where applicable, the results of the qualitative selection and reduction of numbers pursuant to Regulations 66 (reduction of the number of otherwise qualified candidates to be invited to participate) and 67 (contract award criteria), namely:
(i) the names of the selected candidates or tenderers and the reasons for their selection: Capita Business Services Limited, Diona UK Ltd, EntServ UK Limited (trading as DXC) and IBM UK Ltd were the selected candidates due to submitting an EPSD appropriately showing their ability to provide the services required in relation to the SPM software to be developed during the term of the contract;
(ii) the names of the candidates or tenderers rejected and the reasons for their rejection: no candidates were rejected during the selection stage;
(c) the reasons for the rejection of any tenders found to be abnormally low: no tenders were rejected on the basis of being abnormally low.
(d) the name of the successful tenderer and the reasons why its tender was selected: EntServe UK Ltd were the successful tenderer due to having the the best price, quality ratio;
(i) the share (if any) of the contract or framework agreement which the successful tenderer intends to subcontract to third parties: refer to Section V.2.5);
(f) for competitive procedures with negotiation and competitive dialogues, the circumstances as laid down in Regulation 27 (choice of procedures) which justify the use of those procedures: not applicable;
(g) for negotiated procedures without prior publication, the circumstances referred to in Regulation 33 (use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication) which justify the use of this procedure: not applicable;
(h) where applicable, the reasons why the contracting authority has decided not to award a contract or framework agreement or to establish a dynamic purchasing system: not applicable;
(i) where applicable, the reasons why means of communication other than electronic means have been used for the submission of tenders and not applicable;
A potential conflict of interest was identified in respect of a candidate at the selection stage and was addressed at the time by the provision of relevant assurances and undertakings. No conflict of interest actually arose, and the candidate subsequently withdrew from the process for other reasons.


Winner: EntServ UK Ltd — Part of DXC Technology
Award value: 13888444
Number of bids: 2