Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2019-12-30
Buyer: The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48200000 | 48400000 | 48500000 | 48600000 | 48700000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The supplier(s) shall be able to provide a wide range of standard IT products, to include but not be limited to end user devices, audio visual equipment, network infrastructure, IT peripherals, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), operating systems and utility software and a full range of commoditised and commercial software from different vendors, to include, but not be limited to open source licences, COTS licences, Software as a Service (SaaS), operating systems, middleware, utilities and information security software.
In line with the tender document and for additional clarity ‘Body governed by public law’ includes UK public sector bodies identified (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 and local authorities. A list of customers eligible to use the framework agreement as listed in Schedule 10 of the tender documents issued at the time of the original contract notice published 19.7.2019:
This ICT VAR framework agreement is for use by contracting authorities in the United Kingdom and which fall into one or more of the following categories:
(e) non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), including advisory NDPBs, executive NDPBs, and tribunal NDPBs;
(f) all non-crown status government companies wholly or partly owned by Central Government Departments and their subsidiaries. Assembly Sponsored Public Bodies (ASPBs);
(k) educational bodies or establishments including state schools (nursery schools, primary schools, middle or high schools, secondary schools, special schools), academies, colleges, pupil referral unit (PRU), further education colleges and universities;
(q) Councils, including county councils, district councils, county borough councils, community councils, London borough councils, unitary councils, metropolitan councils, parish councils;
(r) other public bodies and public corporations and their subsidiary bodies sponsored by Central Government Departments which are not covered by named categories in this Attachment 1 Authorised Customer list;
2) Those listed and maintained by the government on their website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations or any replacement web-link;
3) Those listed and maintained by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificatio nguide or any replacement web-link;
4) Those set out in the definition of ‘Contracting Authority’ in Regulation 2(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR), namely:
(a) the state, regional or local authorities. This covers parliament, central government, regional government and local government;
(c) bodies governed by public law, as defined under Regulation 2(1) of PCR, including any subsidiary and sponsoring department of such bodies. A body which operates in normal market conditions, aims to make a profit, and bears the losses resulting from the exercise of its activity shall not be considered as being a ‘body governed by public law’ since the needs in the general interest, that it has been set up to meet or been given the task of meeting, can be deemed to have an industrial or commercial character;
(d) associations formed by one or more bodies governed by public law, including any (applicable) joint venture or corporation; and