Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-02-28
Buyer: Scotland Excel
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 30142000 | 30200000 | 48000000 | 48110000 | 48443000
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The prior information notice (PIN) is for a proposed renewal framework for the supply, installation and services for online school payments, cashless catering and kitchen management systems available to all 32 councils in Scotland and Scotland Excel Associate Members.
Provision of a solution to facilitate online school payments. Potential to include software provision and licensing, integration with existing software and other related systems, ongoing support and maintenance and user training. In addition, the scope also includes provision of compatible cashless catering systems or integration of existing cashless catering systems, in addition to kitchen management system for such items as but not limited to meal ordering, nutritional information and ingredient ordering.
Various locations throughout the geographical boundaries of the participating Councils and associate members within SCOTLAND.
To provide the ability for premises to take cashless payments for catering services. In addition, the scope may include provision of a cashless catering systems or integration of existing cashless catering systems. This lot may be further split into sub-lots to include purchased systems or leased systems or alternatively this lot will be made into 2 full lots 1 for maintenance or leasing and the other for equipment. Items may include the following but not limited to: hardware such as touch screen EPOS, revaluation terminals and software, installation, maintenance and support (such as call centres, remote, onsite), updates, patches and replacement parts.
The cashless catering will be provided to any secondary or primary school within the Councils remit or control and provision should be incorporated for early years and nurseries.
Various locations throughout the geographical boundaries of the participating Councils and associate members within SCOTLAND.
Software for advanced reporting, nutritional analysis, menu planning, inventory and kitchen management, which provides various interface capabilities and capable of storing/transmitting all the relevant information with central offices, full management, backup and archiving services for the system and the data it contains.
Various locations throughout the geographical boundaries of the participating Councils and associate members within SCOTLAND.
The service under this lot will include but not be limited to the supply of software systems allowing the ability for councils to take online payments for education from any internet connected device. Where every parent or guardian — irrespective of where they live in Scotland — can go online and pay for their child’s school meal, school trip and other non-meal purchases. It will also be necessary for payments to be accepted from Paypoint terminals, etc., if a parent or guardian has no internet access.
Scotland Excel envisages publishing a future tender opportunity on behalf of all 32 Councils and associate members in Scotland, together with any integration authority or other body, established pursuant to the Public Bodies (Joint Working)(Scotland) Act 2014.
For more information about Scotland Excel and its members, please see http://www.scotland-excel.org.uk
Note: at this stage there is an opportunity for interested parties to meet with Scotland Excel to discuss the upcoming framework. We would like to invite suppliers to contact Scotland Excel to arrange an individual meeting to take place at Scotland Excel’s Offices in Paisley on 17.3.2020.
The meetings will be allocated on first come first serve basis. The meeting can also be conducted over the telephone if this is easier due to locality.
Note: lotting structure has still to be determined, although it is anticipated that the requirements will cover, but not limited to, the provision of online payments and provision of cashless catering and provision of a kitchen management system. In the main these are focussed on schools however it is invisaged that there is scope for use in Councils or associate member facilities.


Award value: 3000000