Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-03-12
Buyer: Department for Infrastructure - Driver and Vehicle Agency
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31000000 | 50110000
Estimated value: 11000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) is an Executive Agency in the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) within the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). DVA is charged with the provision of driver and vehicle testing, licensing and enforcement in Northern Ireland to ensure compliance with the requirements of all relevant European and national legislation. DVA now wish to establish a Contract to appoint a Contractor to supply, install, commission, calibrate and maintain new vehicle testing equipment, integrated test lane (ITL) software, all associated IT hardware, licences and a Management Information System to service our network of Test Centres. This Contract shall run from the date of award for an Initial Period of 10 years and will include a provision to extend the contract for a further period of up to and including 48 months.
After the initial contract period of 10 years there will be options to extend for a periods up to and including 48 months.
The figure detailed within section II.1.7 above is the estimated cost for the initial purchase of 70 test lanes. Should approval be granted for the construction of the new Test Centres this cost will increase accordingly to purchase up to an additional 40 test lanes 110 in total as outlined within the specification document.
Contract Monitoring. The successful Contractor’s performance on this Contract will be managed as per specification and regularly monitored see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 Contract Management https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/. dfp/PGN-01012-Contract-Management-Principles-Procedures-25-Sept-2017.PDF. 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 Central Procurement Directorate 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 Written Warning and Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and this Contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of Written Warning and Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance will 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 for a period of up to three years from the date of issue of the Notice. "The Authority expressly reserves the rights:
(I) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication. of this notice;
(II) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition;
(III) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and (IV) to award contract(s) in stages. In no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates."
CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and incorporated a standstill period (i.e. a minimum 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: Worldwide Environmental Products Inc.
Award value: 11000000
Number of bids: 5