Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-10-13
Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 22200000 | 72310000: Data processing services | 79300000 | 79310000 | 79330000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Crown commercial service, as the authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of media monitoring services for use by Central Government and all other UK Public sector bodies, including:
— education and devolved administrations. It is intended that this commercial agreement will be the recommended vehicle for all media monitoring services required by UK Central Government Departments.
This agreement will be for the monitoring and analysis of media coverage (press, online, broadcast, social media) to enable the evaluation of communications campaigns. Associated additional services will also be included.
Crown commercial service, as the authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of media monitoring services for use by Central Government and all other UK Public Sector bodies, including:
It is intended that this commercial agreement will be the recommended vehicle for all media monitoring services required by UK Central Government Departments.
This agreement will be for the monitoring and analysis of media coverage (press, online, broadcast, social media) to enable the evaluation of communications campaigns. Associated additional services will also be included.
We would like to conduct market engagement with suppliers who operate in this market to gain a greater understanding of the marketplace.
If you are interested in participating in a market engagement session please express your interest by emailing mediamonitoring-2019procurement@crowncommercial.gov.uk no later than midday on Friday 8.11.2019.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS pipeline page http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/procurement-pipeline for updates and monitor tenders electronic daily for the publication of the OJEU contract notice.
The Cyber Essentials scheme is mandatory for central government contracts which involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The Government is taking steps to further reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet.
The service that arise from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the government security classifications scheme (April 2014) of Official. It will be a condition of this contract that this material must be protected. Baseline protection controls are defined in ISO27001:2013 and further defined by the security policy framework


Award value: 10000000