Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-02
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72314000: Data collection and collation services | 72316000: Data analysis services | 73000000 | 73110000 | 73200000
Estimated value: 750000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-07-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract involves the provision of the PISA assessment in up to 120 secondary schools, with up to 4 000 pupils. The assessment is computer based, covering maths, reading and science (majoring on maths in 2021) and the additional assessment domain of creative thinking. The contractor will act as the designated National Centre for Scotland and will ensure delivery of the assessment according to the OECD’s strict criteria.
This contract does not include production of the final report, which is carried out by the Scottish Government.
The contract involves the provision of the PISA assessment in up to 120 secondary schools, with up to 4000 pupils. The assessment is computer based, covering maths, reading and science (majoring on maths in 2021) and the additional assessment domain of creative thinking. The contractor will act as the designated National Centre for Scotland and will ensure delivery of the assessment according to the OECD’s strict criteria. The contractor will be responsible for: validating and testing new assessment items in maths and creative thinking; sampling schools; sampling pupils within schools; testing the software delivery system on school IT networks; delivering a 3-hour assessment and questionnaire; coding, cleaning and submitting data within the OECD’s deadlines; verifying the accuracy of the data returned by the OECD; and delivering match datasets for further linkage and analysis. Contractors will be required to produce reports on the conduct of the survey and deliver their final dataset. The Main survey fieldwork will take place in October/November 2021, with a full field trial in March 2020.
This contract does not include production of the final report, which is carried out by the Scottish Government.
It is anticipated that the next contract will be renewed prior to the expiry of any re-let. It is anticipated that the contract will commence during August 2018.
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.
Statement for 4B.5.1, 4B.5.2 & 4B.5.3 - It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
ESPD (Scotland) Selection Criteria Section, question Section C, part IV: 4C.1.2, 4C.8.1, 4C.8.2 & 4C.10.
Statement for 4C.1.2 — Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies as described in part II.2.4 of the OJEU Contract Notice or the relevant section of the Site Notice.
Statement for 4C.8.1 — Bidders will be required to confirm their average annual manpower for the last 3 years.
Statement for 4C.8.2 — Bidders will be required to confirm their and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years.
Statement for 4C.10 — Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and if so, for what proportion of the contract.
Information concerning Contract Performance/Objectives conditions are contained within the ITT documentation at Schedule 1.
Award Criteria Questions, weightings and technical scoring (0-4)methodolgy guidance can befound in the ITT.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 10708. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343.

Eligibility requirements: III.1.1 is not applicable

Award value: 750000