Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-31
Buyer: The chancellor, masters and scholars of the University of Cambridge
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79200000
Submission deadline: 2018-05-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: As a public authority under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the University of Cambridge Group (the University and its two major trading departments, Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press) needs to appoint a statutory Data Protection Officer (DPO) to the standards of, and to perform the tasks set out in, Articles 37-39 of the GDPR.
The 3 parts of the University Group each employ a nominated member of staff to manage all operational data protection functions within their part of the Group (here termed Data Protection Practitioners, DPPs). The DPPs liaise between themselves on specific matters as appropriate but largely operate independently from each other. In addition, staff in various other offices across the three parts of the Group (e.g. information security managers) fulfil some operational functions related to data protection.
As a public authority under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the University of Cambridge Group (the University and its 2 major trading departments, Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press) needs to appoint a statutory Data Protection Officer (DPO) to the standards of, and to perform the tasks set out in, Articles 37-39 of the GDPR.
The three parts of the University Group each employ a nominated member of staff to manage all operational data protection functions within their part of the Group (here termed Data Protection Practitioners, DPPs). The DPPs liaise between themselves on specific matters as appropriate but largely operate independently from each other. In addition, staff in various other offices across the three parts of the Group (e.g. information security managers) fulfil some operational functions related to data protection.
The University of Cambridge is not a public body within the meaning of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU) and is not subject to the European procurement legislation. Where the University advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. The University reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as the University considers necessary.
The University reserves the right to accept any part of any tender. Information about the tender process to be followed does not amount to a legally binding offer by the University to follow the process so described. The University reserves the right not to follow or to modify the procedures as the University considers necessary.
Tenders shall be submitted in accordance with and subject to the terms of these Instructions. Tenders not complying with any mandatory requirement (indicated by the word “shall” or “must”) may be rejected by the University acting in its sole discretion.