Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-08-21
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72222100: Information systems strategic review services
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-09-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Information systems or technology strategic review services. The Innovation and Research InSight Unit (IRIS), a strategic-level science and technology assessment function in the Ministry of Defence, intends to contract for a service or services to improve its understanding of, and ability to report on global science and technology developments. This will support IRIS in its provision of strategic advice to Defence on new S&T developments, and how to respond to them.
— understand which areas of science and technology are new or emerging, are growing in volume or impact, or are increasing in significance because of other significant metrics,
— see data identifying transitions between academic activity, investment / acquisitions activity and patenting activity,
— understand which areas of science and technology are a UK strength, and which are a strength of other nations,
— understand which institutions and individuals are key players in each area of science and technology,
— see the sub-analyses and specific sources underpinning data points (including individual publications, news articles, etc),
— see data and trends in user-tailorable but largely automatically generated visual and summary formats, so we don’t need to spend a great deal of time setting it up,
— see the most contemporary data and trends, within a contemporary taxonomy of categories that we don’t need to know or generate ourselves,
— receive alerts when an area of science and technology may be experiencing growth, or shows other trends we may be interested in (for example, progress is being made in exclusively ‘adversary nations’).
— understand which areas of science and technology are new or emerging, are growing in volume or impact, or are increasing in significance because of other significant metrics,
— see data identifying transitions between academic activity, investment / acquisitions activity and patenting activity,
— understand which areas of science and technology are a UK strength, and which are a strength of other nations,
— understand which institutions and individuals are key players in each area of science and technology,
— see the sub-analyses and specific sources underpinning data points (including individual publications, news articles, etc),
— see data and trends in user-tailorable but largely automatically generated visual and summary formats, so we don’t need to spend a great deal of time setting it up,

Eligibility requirements: The estimated annual contract value is 200 000 GBP ex VAT. If the estimated annual contract value is greater than 40 % of the supplier’s turnover, the Authority reserves the right to exclude the supplier from being selected to tender except where the supplier provides, to the satisfaction of the Authority, evidence showing it has sufficient economic and financial capability, for example such evidence may include: (1) any additional information proving it has sufficient economic and financial resources to deliver the requirement; and (2) stating whether the supplier is willing to provide the Authority with an indemnity, guarantee or bank bond. A financial assessment will be undertaken on the supplier’s financial status. An overall pass / fail judgement will be made after considering areas such as turnover, profit, net assets, liquidity, gearing and capacity. This assessment will include the Parent company where applicable. An independent financial assessment obtained from a reputable credit rating organisation may be utilised as part of this process.