Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-29
Buyer: The Secretary of State for the Home Department
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30000000 | 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 1000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-07-24
Award criteria: Price, Delivery of solution, Implementation, Service Delivery management, Modernisation, Security, Additional Services

Technical requirements: Price
Delivery of solution
Implementation
Service Delivery management
Modernisation
Security
Additional Services
Kent, Croydon, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff, Solihull, Harmondsworth, Bedfordshire, Belfast, Houslow, Colnbrook and mobile unit across the UK.
The scope of the Home Office Digital Interviewing Project is for the digital upgrade of 150 interview rooms spread across 12 UK sites and the subsequent access to all the recorded interview data (both text and audio). In total there will be approximately 500 users requiring different levels of user profiles/access — and there is an estimated 35 000-40 000 interviews to be captured each year.
The scope of the Home Office Digital Interviewing Project is initially for the digital upgrade of 150 interview rooms (plus 10 mobile devices) spread across 13 UK sites and the subsequent access to all the recorded interview data (both text and audio). In total there will be approximately 550 users requiring different levels of user profiles/access — and there is an estimated 35 000-40 000 interviews to be captured each year.
The Home Office Digital Interviewing solution should be regarded as a collection of services. These services are
— Digital interview capture and applicant output including multiple participants and video-conferencing integration. Provision of software and equipment to enable audio recording in each interview room.
— Cloud-hosted Storage and View: during interview to produce an interview record as output from the interview. Word or text processor functionality integrated or aligned with service 1.
— Cloud-hosted Value added services where all output is stored and is accessible to Home Office end users, legal representatives and applicants. Universal functionality aligned with services 1 and 2 to make the digital interviewing service viable from a business perspective.
Following initial implementation the contract may or may not be used by other areas for the Home Office group.

Eligibility requirements: Bidders will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, on the basis of information provided in response to the ITT. See ‘Guidance to Bidders — Evaluation Criteria and Scoring Methodology’ in relation to the ITT. The ITT can be accessed at:https://ccsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in section VI.2.1) of this notice. Bidders will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, on the basis of information provided in response to the ITT. See ‘Guidance to Bidders — Evaluation Criteria and Scoring Methodology’ in relation to the ITT. The ITT can be accessed at:https://ccsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in section VI.2.1) of this notice. Bidders will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, on the basis of information provided in response to the ITT. See ‘Guidance to Bidders — Evaluation Criteria and Scoring Methodology’ in relation to the ITT. The ITT can be accessed at:https://ccsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in section VI.2.1) of this notice.
Bidders will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, on the basis of information provided in response to the ITT. See ‘Guidance to Bidders — Evaluation Criteria and Scoring Methodology’ in relation to the ITT. The ITT can be accessed at:https://ccsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in section VI.2.1) of this notice.