Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-02
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48190000 | 72212100: Industry specific software programming services | 72212190
Estimated value: 1500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-09-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Scottish Government requires a Service Provider to provide a national system of online standardised assessments of children's progress in literacy and numeracy in Scotland for Gaelic Medium Education (GME).
The Scottish Government requires a Service Provider to provide a national system of online standardised assessments of children's progress in literacy and numeracy in Scotland for Gaelic Medium Education (GME). The Assessments will comprise part of a wider programme which is implementing a ‘National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education’.
The Service Provider's role within the project will be to design and deliver a set of Gaelic Medium Assessments which will: report progress in skills for reading, writing and numeracy; assess pupils in primaries 1, 4, 7 and secondary 3; provide individual, diagnostic reports on each pupil's progress which will supply information to identify strengths and individual learning needs; be online (but with provision for alternative formats if necessary); be adaptive (become easier or more difficult dependent of the answer of the pupil); be suitable for the Scottish school education system and aligned with Curriculum for Excellence and be inclusive (will be equitable and allow all pupils to be fairly assessed, no matter their background, experience, additional support needs or level of ability).
The Service Provider will be required to work closely with the Scottish Government and Education Scotland throughout the development of the assessments, in particular to ensure their alignment with Curriculum for Excellence and the approach to immersion learning through the Gaelic medium.
The contract is for a period of 3 years with an optional extension period of 2 years (1 year plus 1 year) at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers.
Lotting: It is not suitable to lot this contract opportunity on a geographical nor commodity-specific basis due to the nature of the requirement.
Optional extension period of up to 24 Months exercisable at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequent awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
There must be no qualification or contra-indication from any evidence provided in support of the bidder's economic and financial standing.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is Project_8028. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343
0 — Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement.
1 — Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled.
2- Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas.
3 — Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on how the requirements will be fulfilled.

Eligibility requirements: Not used.

Award value: 1500000