Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-18
Buyer: Department for Economy - Invest NI
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 350000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-06-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Invest NI wish to appoint a Contractor to migrate, configure, maintain and support its key corporate websites on the Drupal 8 platform. The scope of this contract will include the following services:
— design and build of a Drupal 8 environment including operating systems on supplied hardware, and with separate instances, suitable for all Invest NI corporate websites including the future migration of NIBusinessInfo,
— migration to Drupal 8 and provision of ongoing support and maintenance including operating system patching for the following Invest NI websites from the date the sites have been successfully migrated:
— provision of Drupal technical and development resource through additional development days in support of our internal development team.
Invest NI wish to appoint a Contractor to migrate, configure, maintain and support its key corporate websites on the Drupal 8 platform. The scope of this contract will include the following services:
— design and build of a Drupal 8 environment including operating systems on supplied hardware, and with separate instances, suitable for all Invest NI corporate websites including the future migration of NIBusinessInfo,
— migration to Drupal 8 and provision of ongoing support and maintenance including operating system patching for the following Invest NI websites from the date the sites have been successfully migrated:
— provision of Drupal technical and development resource through additional development days in support of our internal development team.
This contract will start on the Contract Commencement Date and will run for an initial period of 3 years and up to 9 months.
There are also seven (7) optional extension periods of one (1) year i.e. 3 years plus 9 months + 1 year + 1 year + 1 year + 1 year + 1 year + 1 year + 1 year.
The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value. This value reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope / and or scale which may result.. from future operational requirements. The pricing strategy applied and the setting of cost / profit margins are a commercial decision for.. economic operators when submitting a bid for this competition. In addition, neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee... as to the level of business under this contract. Contract Monitoring — The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will... be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not... getting what it is paying for If a Contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time... to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance the matter will be escalated to... senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the... specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory... Performance and the contract may be terminated. The effect of the Notice will be to enable any Department, at its discretion, to exclude... the supplier from future procurement competitions being undertaken for a period of three years. This contract will not be awarded in.. Lots as a single supplier is required.
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where.. appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of the.. contract.. is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision.


Award value: 350000