Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-06-03
Buyer: North Lanarkshire Council
Country: UK
Region: North Lanarkshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 327372.57 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Council is seeking an established assessment solution for standardised testing of literacy and numeracy in school children.
The Council wishes to procure a solution which is already tried and tested in the market place. It is not looking to commission the development of such a solution.
The intention is for pupil attainment to be assessed at a number of year stages and cumulatively, over time, to inform the Council's school improvement agenda. This will be at stages P3, P5, P7 and S2.
The data and analysis should inform decision-making by teachers, schools managers and authority officers about ways in which educational provision for individual and groups of children might be tailored to maximise its effectiveness.
Together with teacher judgement this data and analysis will provide a baseline of pupil attainment that is needed to measure interventions from the Challenge Attainment North Lanarkshire Project.
The Council are looking to procure a single/unified integrated solution provided by 1 supplier which is already tried and tested in the market place. It is not looking to commission the development of such a solution. The intention is for pupil attainment to be assessed at a number of year stages and cumulatively, over time, to inform the Council's school improvement agenda. This will be at stages P3, P5, P7 and S2. The solution must be capable of being administered across 120 primary schools and 23 secondary schools with in excess 5 000 desktop computers. The current number of pupils in each of the relevant year groups is for Assessment period: March-May 2017; P3 Pupils 4 107; P5 Pupils 4 067; P7 Pupils 3 866; S2 Pupils 3 818. The solution must be able to be administered simultaneously across a number of classes comprising up to 33 pupils. Full implementation of the solution must be ready for use in schools by March/April 2017.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The Invitation To Tender and supporting documentation may be accessed and downloaded from the Public Contracts Scotland Portal at http//www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
To access these documents Tenderers will firstly need to register (if they have not already done so) on the Public Contracts Scotland Portal and then express interest in this particular procurement.
Tenders must be returned using the PCS submission post-box by the date and time specified in this Contract Notice and/or documentation. Late tenders will not be accepted. The council reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process initiated by this Contract Notice and in such event will not be liable for any costs incurred by any party.
If the bidder relies on the capacities of any other entity And / Or if the bidder has decided to subcontract a part of the contract and relies on the subcontractor's capacities to perform that part of the Contract, then a separate ESPD for the entity/subcontractor must be completed for sections:
The council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day Standstill Period following electronic notification (minimum of 15 calendar days for any other means of communication) to unsuccessful applicants of the award decision. A Tenderer that suffers, or risks suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.


Winner: CEM, Durham University
Award value: 327372.57
Number of bids: 2