Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-28
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72222300: Information technology services | 72267100: Maintenance of information technology software
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-03-14
Award criteria: Technical, Price

Technical requirements: Technical
Price
CAP Reform refers to the new EU Common Agricultural Policy regulations for paying schemes running from 2015-2019.
As part of the CAP implementation there is a requirement to develop a new central Integrated Administration Control System (IACS) with enhanced, interactive geo-spatial capability, including an updated Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), which must include GIS capability supporting a map-enabled customer interface.
European Regulations require the Agriculture, Food and Rural Communities Directorate (AFRC) within Scottish Government to uniquely identify, map and evaluate the area of every land parcel in Scotland claimed under the various EC grant-aid schemes covered by the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS). Subsidy claims cannot be paid to Rural Businesses until they have been successfully verified against the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), which is a fundamental part of the Integrated Administration and Control system (IACS) and part of the technical implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy stipulated since the early 1990's.
The primary objective of the LPIS procurement is to replace the existing Business as Usual (BAU) technology and to deliver a new LPIS that supports CAP compliance and the Futures Programme strategic objectives and vision.
An accurate and functioning LPIS is critical to the payments and compliance processes. As such, a successful delivery of a fully functioning and compliant LPIS is a pre-requisite and key enabler for the successful delivery of CAP reform.
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Payment as per milestone schedule (20 % ring-fenced, payment on completion of 90 day warranty period).
(1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent.
(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.
(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.

Eligibility requirements: (1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent. (2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process. (3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession. (4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession. (5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the State in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register. (6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process. (7) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established (8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the economic operator is established. (1) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance. (2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice. (3) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.
(1) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance. (2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice. (3) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.