Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-12-13
Buyer: University Of Edinburgh
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30200000 | 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 286015 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The purpose of this tender is to seek the provision of an integrated Assistive Technology (AT) Solution by a soul external provider who will offer the following outcomes and benefits:
This procurement will be conducted via the Public Contracts Scotland — Tender portal (PCS-T). We will apply a one stage open procedure. Bidders must self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the ESPD (Scotland) in PSC-T, and may be required to submit means of proof before contract award. Bidders must refer to the specific requirements listed in the Section III in this OJEU Contract Notice when completing the ESPD in PCS-T.
The University of Edinburgh is Tendering for the provision of assistive technology goods and services on behalf of Student Disability Service (SDS.)
SDS provides a wide range of loan equipment to students, such as laptops, digital voice recorders and Livescribe pens. In addition to the hardware provided, there are a number of software programmes designed to assist students in their learning experience including, but not limited to:
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if there are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
This procurement includes one additional procurement-specific pass/fail mandatory requirement which is detailed in the technical envelope within PCS-T.
Note: Bidders must complete the ESPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the exclusion and selection criteria for this procurement.
If there are named subcontractors/technicians upon which the bidder will rely to meet the selection criteria, these parties must complete and reattach the ESPD Supplier Response Forms (MO Excel document) attached to ESPD questions 2C.1.1 (Technicians) and 2D.1.2 (Subcontractors) on PCS-T. These parties must complete the first three sections of the ESPD form, as well as any part of the section 4 selection criteria that the main bidder will rely upon the parties to fulfil. If parties have not yet been identified, this information may be required at a later date. The University reserves the right to request information about relevant parties upon whom the main bidder will not rely to fulfil the selection criteria.
Note: Bidders and subcontractors engaged in the delivery of this contract may be excluded if they have not met applicable social, environmental and labour obligations under national, EU, and international law (as indicated in ESPD section 3D). Without prejudice to any additional relevant duties, suppliers should note that this includes obligations for certain organisations under:
— the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/30/contents/enacted,
— the ILO conventions and other measures listed in Annex X of Directive 2014/24/EU (available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014L0024&from=EN)
— the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/493/contents/made) - this is grounds for mandatory exclusion or termination at any procurement or contract stage at any stage, bidders and/or relevant subcontractors may be required to provide statements and means of proof demonstrating their compliance with these obligations or the reliability of their self-cleansing measures, including the annual statement as provided for by Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act for organisations with a turnover of 36 000 000 GBP or over.


Winner: Iansyst Ltd
Award value: 286015
Number of bids: 4