Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-09-09
Buyer: Bazalgette Tunnel Limited
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 48600000 | 48700000 | 71313420
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-10-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Tideway is seeking to appoint one provider to implement a cloud based solution that can deliver functionality in the following areas:
vi. Management of tasks and corrective actions related to Incidents, Investigations, Audits, Inspections and Checklists and other activities,
vii. Communication of Health, Safety and Environmental information relevant to the programme to all registered users of the solution,
viii. Reporting and analysis of all data held in the solution, including incidents data, investigation data, audit and inspection data, KPI data and user administration data,
This procurement is for the establishment of a new Health, Safety, Environment and Quality Management System for use by the Tideway project. This includes the purchase of a software as a service (Saas) solution and associated support provisions. The term will be a minimum of three years and up to the remainder of the project (a potential 7 years).
Further information on the scope of the Contract and the procurement is included in the PQP and accompanying Procurement Documents.
Applicants are referred to the PQP and Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) for information on Tideway's criteria for choosing Applicants to be invited to tender for the Contract. Tideway expects to selects the top four Applicants to tender for the Contract. Tideway reserves the right in its absolute discretion to invite fewer than four Applicants or to invite 5 Applicants on the basis described in the PQP.
Applicants should be aware that Tideway reserves the right to extend the Contract Period by period or periods of up to 4 years making a maximum aggregate Contract Period of 7 years.
Further, Applicants should also be aware that Tideway reserves the right to omit and/or vary the scope of the Contract and/ or require optional scope to be performed. Further information in relation to scope, value of the Contract and value of Tideway's options is included in the PQP.
Applicants are referred to the PQP and PQQ for information about Tideway's objective rules and criteria for participation in the Contract.
Tideway reserves the right to require guarantees, bonds, collateral warranties (potentially including the grant of step-in rights) and other forms of security as appropriate to be specified in the Procurement Documents to be made available at ITT stage. Applicants are referred to the PQP for relevant information available at this Contract Notice stage.
The main financing conditions, payment mechanism, performance standards and incentive mechanism will be described in the Procurement Documents to be made available at ITT stage. Further details will be provided in the published ITT documentation. Applicants are referred to the PQP for relevant information available at this Contract Notice stage.
Tideway will accept expressions of interest and tenders from single entities or Consortia. Tideway does not require those Consortia who intend to form a single legal entity to do so at the PQQ stage. Tideway will consider contracting with a Consortium, providing always that the participants in any Consortium are jointly and severally liable for all of the obligations of the Contractor under the Contract.
1) Terms in this Contract Notice with initial capital letters have the meanings given in PQP Section 1.1.8 (Glossary).
2) To express interest in the Contract, Applicants must register and complete the PQQ on the Tideway portal: https://tideway.bravosolution.co.uk by the deadline for PQQs stated in the PQP. The PQQ Deadline is a precise time and Applicants must allow sufficient time to upload the PQQ.

Eligibility requirements: Applicants are referred to the PQP and PQQ for information about conditions for participation.

Award value: 500000