Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-31
Buyer: Queen's University Belfast
Country: UK
Region: NORTHERN IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48730000: Security software package
Submission deadline: 2017-05-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: QUB/1539/17 Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Implementation and Support of a Physical Security Information Management System.
Queen's University Belfast (Queen's) seeks to appoint a suitable Contractor to design, supply, install, test, commission, implement and maintain a Physical Security Information Management System (PSIM).
The proposed PSIM system will integrate a wide range of CCTV cameras of a variety of types, both analogue and digital, a range of intruder alarms, panic alarms, fire alarms, building management alarms and the access control system onto a single platform using the University IT network, allowing the alarms to be monitored and CCTV to be viewed from the Security Control Room.
The Contract shall provide for the initial purchase of the system, installation, implementation and commissioning. The Contract shall include the provision of support for an initial contract period of 3 years from date of Go Live. The Contract includes options to extend the provision of system support, system upgrades and relevant system bolt-ons, until the end of useful life or replacement of the system, subject to satisfactory annual review.
The option to extend the contract, either for support, upgrades, or to permit the addition of relevant bolt-on system packages, shall be entirely at the discretion of Queen's and subject to satisfactory annual review.
The Contract includes options to extend the provision of system support, system upgrades and relevant system bolt-ons, until the end of useful life or replacement of the system, subject to satisfactory annual review.
The option to extend the contract, either for support, upgrades, or to permit the addition of relevant bolt-on system packages, shall be entirely at the discretion of Queen's and subject to satisfactory annual review.
An indemnity, guarantee, bond or other form of appropriate security may be required for a contract awarded as a result of this procurement, if deemed appropriate by the University.
The University's requirements are set out in the procurement documents. The University reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the procurement documents.
This authority will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to Tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Public Contract Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) as amended, provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

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