Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-27
Buyer: South Eastern Regional Colleges
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48200000 | 48500000 | 48520000 | 48600000
Estimated value: 225000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-07-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Authority requires a single provider to migrate ISDN circuit and telephony line services for seven SERC college campuses, including the porting of 450 DDI numbers to SIP channels. The Authority will award a contract to the successful tenderer for an anticipated period of up to 4 months for the installation and implementation phase followed by a period of 3 years from service commencement with the option of 1 annual extension of 12 months i.e. a maximum of 4 years.
The Authority requires a single provider to migrate ISDN circuit and telephony line services for 7 SERC college campuses, including the porting of 450 DDI numbers to SIP channels. The Authority will award a contract to the successful tenderer for an anticipated period of up to 4 months for the installation and implementation phase followed by a period of 3 years from service commencement with the option of 1 annual extension of 12 months i.e. a maximum of 4 years.
The Authority will award a contract to the successful tenderer for an anticipated period of up to 4 months for the installation and implementation phase followed by a period of 3 years from service commencement with the option of 1 annual extension of 12 months i.e. a maximum of 4 years. The extension will be subject to review and satisfactory performance assessment by SERC.
The figure indicated in II.1.5) and II.2.6) represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from 150 000 GBP to 225 000 GBP. This ranges reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account additional further services that. may be required to develop additional functionality/system upgrades.
This contract will not be divided into Lots as the Authority requires a single contractor (or consortia) to manage the entire Service. The figure indicated in II.1.5) and II.2.6) represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from 150 000 GBP to 225 000 GBP. This ranges reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account additional further services that. may be required to develop additional functionality/system upgrades. Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate”. VI.4).
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where. appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision.


Award value: 225000