Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-11-17
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72253000: Helpdesk and support services | 72260000: Software-related services | 72500000
Estimated value: 28000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The P2P Service Support Contract will include but not be limited to the provision, management and support for the following key components and services.
a. A Primary Data Centre and a Disaster Recovery Centre (including support and maintenance of all applications, data, software and hardware; all system administration and operating systems; all databases; and contingency, continuity and backup recovery). The Primary Data Centre is located within the Scottish Government's data centre at Saughton House, Edinburgh.
The effective use of technology is at the heart of improving procurement capability and the Scottish Government's national eCommerce Shared Service brings together all the steps involved in doing business with the public sector in Scotland. It is a collaborative environment that promotes improved procurement capability, enables business to be conducted more simply, consistently and effectively and it plays a key strategic role in delivering and sustaining procurement benefits and best practices.
The Scottish Government has provided a national P2P service since 2002 when PECOS P2P was deployed. Since then the scope of the service has increased to deliver additional capability to underpin, enable and support the full P2P process and make the process of buying and paying for goods, services and works easy and efficient for both public sector bodies and suppliers.
The P2P service is one of the most comprehensive eCommerce services in the world and forms part of Scottish Government's wider eCommerce Shared Service. It is fully hosted and managed from the Scottish Government's data centre located in Saughton House, Edinburgh and includes 71 000 registered users and 168 000 registered suppliers. 235 000 orders are processed each month and almost 1 000 000 order lines are generated each month.
The P2P service is available to any Scottish public sector or 3rd sector body. User organisations are required to enter into a PECOS Sub-Licence to enable access to the service and the Scottish Government is responsible for managing all engagement, implementations and on-going relationship management with all user organisations.
Scottish Government currently operates the P2P service through a licence agreement which provides perpetual rights to Elcom PECOS software. To enable delivery of the P2P support service, the Service Provider will be required to obtain appropriate software licences for the relevant PECOS components.
It is envisaged that the contract for this requirement will be awarded in May/June 2018 with a service commencement date of 5.11.2018. The initial contract period will be 5 years with an option to extend for up to 2 years.
Views are sought from suppliers interested in providing this service. These together with any requests for further information should be forwarded to the contact named at Section I.1). not later than 29.11.2017.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=515594


Award value: 28000000