Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-03-04
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000 | 72300000 | 72500000
Estimated value: 1950000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-04-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service as the Contracting Authority is putting in place a framework agreement for use by UK public sector bodies identified at VI.3 (and any future successors to these organisations), which include Central Government Departments and their arm’s length bodies and agencies, non departmental public bodies, NHS bodies, local authorities and universities.
The maximum initial duration of any call-off contract that may be placed by an eligible contracting authorities is 24 months with two extensions allowed, each of up to 12 months.
G-Cloud services, available via the digital marketplace, will require frequent procurement refreshes to bring on new suppliers and services. New iterations of this framework are being considered at a frequency of 12 months depending on demand and/or availability of new services as the IT Cloud market develops.
Cloud hosting services sold through G-Cloud are cloud platform or infrastructure Services that can help buyers do at least one of the following:
The G-Cloud cloud hosting lot is equivalent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definitions of ‘Platform as a Service’ and ‘Infrastructure as a Service’:
The framework agreement duration is for 12 months however the Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the duration of this framework agreement for any period up to a maximum of Twelve (12) months from the expiry of the initial term.
Cloud Software Services sold through G-Cloud are applications that are accessed over the internet and hosted in the cloud. Buyers only need to pay for what they use.
The G-Cloud cloud software lot is equivalent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of Software as a Service:
G-Cloud cloud software suppliers will provide cloud software services in at least one of these categories:
The framework agreement duration is for 12 months however the Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the duration of this framework agreement for any period up to a maximum of twelve (12) months from the expiry of the initial term.
Cloud support services sold through G-Cloud can help buyers set up and maintain their cloud software.
A description for additional services must be included by the Supplier and it must be G-Cloud service-related. Additional services must help the supplier with its main G-Cloud services offering. Non-G-Cloud services will be removed from the digital marketplace.
Services that aren’t cloud-related recruitment or contractor (contingent labour) Services or Services that are inside IR35 ‘colocation’ services, for example space the buyer rents from a supplier’s
The buyer doesn’t have to buy any additional services from the supplier and can buy services that are the same as or similar to the additional services from any third party.
The framework agreement duration is for 12 months however the Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the duration of this framework agreement for any period up to a maximum of twelve (12) months from the expiry of the initial term.

Eligibility requirements: Bidders will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender (‘ITT’) registering for access.

Award value: 1950000000