Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-10-06
Buyer: Department of Finance
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 73220000 | 79400000 | 79410000
Estimated value: 50000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Framework Agreement for the provision of Multi Specialism professional services Framework will complement the current in-house resources and will be used to provide a single route to access the provision of strategic, high level, broad based and innovative advice across a wide range of disciplines. Longer term high value, complex and multidisciplinary contracts (typically more than 1 month) that will include more than 1 consultancy specialism to assure the successful delivery of significant Contracting Authority projects and or programmes. There are four main elements within the scope of the Framework: 1. Context: Transformational Projects 2. Role: Client-side Advisory Services 3. Role: Client Side Programme Delivery 4. Nature: Multi-Disciplinary Deployment of Resources The Public Sector Shared Services Programme OBC Support Assignment will be used as a path finder to establish the Collaborative Framework Agreement which other bodies can use to call off their requirements.
All bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks may avail of this Framework Agreement for their external Multi Specialism professional services requirements.
The Framework Agreement for the provision of Multi Specialism professional services Framework will complement the current in-house resources and will be used to provide a single route to access the provision of strategic, high level, broad based and innovative advice across a wide range of disciplines. Longer term high value, complex and multidisciplinary contracts (typically more than 1 month) that will include more than 1 consultancy specialism to assure the successful delivery of significant Contracting Authority projects and or programmes. There are four main elements within the scope of the Framework: 1. Context: Transformational Projects 2. Role: Client-side Advisory Services 3. Role: Client Side Programme Delivery 4. Nature: Multi-Disciplinary Deployment of Resources The Public Sector Shared Services Programme OBC Support Assignment will be used as a path finder to establish the Collaborative Framework Agreement which other bodies can use to call off their requirements.
Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor's performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. 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 CPD 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 Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate 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 12 months from the date of issue of the certificate. 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 and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. The Framework Agreement is being let by Central Procurement Directorate on behalf of any public sector organisations requiring services in Northern Ireland. All bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-canparticipate-. cpd-collaborative-frameworks may avail of this Framework Agreement for their external Multi Specialism professional services requirements. Note: This is not a multi-lot Framework, the Lots have been established for evaluation purposes only to establish the Framework and also the Public Sector Shared Services Programme OBC Support Assignment. All secondary competitions will be carried. out with the Contractors appointed to Lot 1. Note: V.2.4 is an estimate of potential expenditure through this Framework Agreement. For completeness this is a voluntary Award Notice for Lot 2 as both Lots were included in the Contract Notice. However Lot 2 was a call-off from the awarded Framework Agreement and not subject to publication of an Award Notice.


Winner: British Telecommunications plc
Award value: 50000000
Number of bids: 13