Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-06
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48800000 | 48900000 | 72000000 | 72100000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-11-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
CCS wishes to establish a commercial vehicle for provision of securely hosted online eSourcing procurement solution(s). This requirement will be acquired as a software service.
The solution(s) must allow end to end management sourcing activity in full compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, national legislation and be flexible enough to undertake subsequent revisions in the future.
— support API approach to create a seamless solution, working in conjunction with existing CCS technological solutions,
— ensure all solutions have capability to work in conjunction with each other, if more than one solution procured,
— provide comprehensive, reliable audit trails, process reporting and other related transparency controls,
— a procurement process tool to manage the end to end process cycle covering all stages of the tendering process from notice creation to award of contract, including the automated publication of all notices, expressions of interest, requests for information and request for quotes, the secure exchange of all tender documents, a secure messaging system,
— the management of e-auctions, including both best price and with non-price criteria, both forward auctions and normal reverse auctions of multiple types.
— a procurement process tool to manage the end to end process cycle covering all stages of the tendering process from notice creation to award of contract, including the automated publication of all notices, expressions of interest, requests for information and request for quotes, the secure exchange of all tender documents, and a secure messaging system.
— the management of e-auctions, including both best price and with non-price criteria, both forward auctions and normal reverse auctions of multiple types.
Lot 4 – Sourcing, e-Auction and DPS will allow for customers to Call-Off a minimum combination of 2 of the 3 Lots. The four available bundled options will be:
Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to tender ("ITT") registering for access.
The value provided in Section II.1.5 is only an estimate. We cannot guarantee to the supplier any business through this Framework Agreement. As part of this Contract Notice the following documents can be accessed at:
This procurement will be managed electronically via the BravoSolution eSourcing tool. This will be the route for sharing all information and communicating with bidders. If you have recently registered on the BravoSolution portal for another CCS procurement you can use the same account for this new procurement. If not, you will first need to register your organisation on the portal.
— your DUNS number — a unique nine-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun and Bradstreet,

Eligibility requirements: Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to tender ("ITT") registering for access.

Award value: 10000000