Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-21
Buyer: Secretary of State for Transport
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72310000: Data processing services | 72313000: Data capture services | 72314000: Data collection and collation services
Estimated value: 2000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-30
Award criteria: Quality, Price

Technical requirements: Quality
Price
It is the Contracting Authority's intention to procure a rich and highly detailed dataset of directly observed travel time and routing data for vehicles using the entire road network. This will be for all roads in England. This data will be extremely valuable to Secretary of State for Transport and across central and local Government and will be used for a number of purposes. Under the contract term the Authority would require an initial delivery of historic travel time data, estimated to be January 2017 to March 2017, to be delivered within two months of the contract start date. Going forward data will probably be provided for period from contract start date, estimated March 2017, to February 2019, However, the Authority anticipates that it will possibly also have the option to extend the supply of this data for additional two (2) years (in one (1) year increments).
The service provided may be based on one or more data sources. These may include in-vehicle monitoring systems, such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS), or roadside monitoring systems, such as Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras or other sensor technologies.
The Secretary of State for Transport would require travel time data to be accurately referenced to individual links within the Ordnance Survey (OS) premium version geography layers. Currently used is the Integrated Transport Network geography (www.os.uk/itn) but expectation is to move across to the new Highways Network layer (www.os.uk/highways) in the near future.
Central to this contract, the Authority would make datasets provided under the contract available, without additional charges, to other bodies (list available in ITT) for use in managing their respective road networks under their responsibility and undertaking micro and macro transport modelling simulations.
Participants will be advised if this is necessary during the procurement. Parent company and/or other guarantees of performance and financial liability may be required by the Contracting Authority if considered appropriate.
No special legal form is required but if a contract is awarded to a consortium, the Contracting Authority may require the consortium to form a legal entity before entering into the Contract.
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’).
The ITT can be accessed at: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in III.2.1
(a) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;
(b) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;
(c) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities;

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’). 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’). 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’). The ITT can be accessed at: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in III.2.1 The Contracting Authority may have regard to any of the following means in its assessment: (a) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator; (b) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work; (c) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities; (d) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work; (e) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years; (f) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract; (g) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract; (h) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.
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’).
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’). The ITT can be accessed at: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in III.2.1 The Contracting Authority may have regard to any of the following means in its assessment: (a) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator; (b) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work; (c) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities; (d) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work; (e) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years; (f) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract; (g) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract; (h) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.