Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-18
Buyer: Police Service of Northern Ireland
Country: UK
Region: NORTHERN IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 48600000 | 48610000: Database systems | 48750000
Estimated value: 7000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-25
Award criteria: Key personnel — experience [KP01 — KP04], Price

Technical requirements: Key personnel — experience [KP01 — KP04]
Price
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is seeking to commission the design, development, implementation and long term support of a new CJDS system. The CJDS system is in line with the PSNI strategic goals for digital services and is designed to serve the public in creating more effective flexible cost effective solutions. Delivery on this commitment to the community relies upon a close working relationship with Criminal Justice organisations in Northern Ireland and across the wider UK. The close relationship between Criminal Justice Organisations (CJO) is critical to PSNI and is partly delivered through a data sharing system.
The contract will start on the Contract Commencement Date and will run for an initial period of 6 ½ years plus 3 optional extension periods consisting of 2 x 2 years plus a further 1 year i.e. 6 ½ +2+2+1. Please note the initial contract period of 6 ½ years is to allow for a period of development of 1 ½ years with support of 5 years following service commencement.
All optional extensions will be subject to review and satisfactory performance assessment by the PSNI.
Support and maintenance of the BPS, NPS and NDE system's will commence no later than 3 months following the contract commencement date.
In addition further services may be required to facilitate system upgrades and accommodate the integration of or interfacing with other systems.
The contract will start on the Contract Commencement Date and will run for an initial period of 6 ½ years plus 3 optional extension periods consisting of 2 x 2 years plus a further 1 year i.e. 6 ½ +2+2+1. Please note the initial contract period of 6 ½ years is to allow for a period of development of 1 ½ years with support of 5 years following service commencement.
All optional extensions will be subject to review and satisfactory performance assessment by the PSNI.
Support and maintenance of the BPS, NPS and NDE system's will commence no later than 3 months following the contract commencement date.
In addition further services may be required to facilitate system upgrades and accommodate the integration of or interfacing with other systems.
The Tenderer must have experience of delivering a bespoke message based inter-agency data sharing solution within a secure (IL4) government environment.
This contract will not be divided into Lots as the Authority requires a single contractor (or consortia) to manage the entire Service.
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.

Eligibility requirements: As per Tender Documentation. The Tenderer must have experience of delivering a bespoke message based inter-agency data sharing solution within a secure (IL4) government environment. As per Tender documentation.
The Tenderer must have experience of delivering a bespoke message based inter-agency data sharing solution within a secure (IL4) government environment. As per Tender documentation.