Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-16
Buyer: Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body
Country: UK
Region: Edinburgh, City of
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 64228100 | 72413000: Website design services
Estimated value: 350000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body requires a Contractor to provide, design, host and maintain a microsite which plays live video streams and archived video-on-demand material. In addition, the Contractor will have to provide the relevant hardware to enable the programming and streaming of 7 simultaneous meetings and a content management system to manage the streaming and subsequent creation of video on demand files.
The contract duration may be extended by up to 24 months with the agreement of the Contractor and the SPCB.
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.
With reference to ESPD question 4A.1 — if required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
With reference to ESPD question 4.C.1.2 — Bidders will be required to provide up to three (3) examples to clearly demonstrate your experience in delivering all of the services as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. Please note that all of the services can be spread across all examples or in one. A simple assertion will not be acceptable as evidence.
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) uses Creditsafe, an independent provider of online business credit reports, to assess the financial standing of tenderers. Tenderers are encouraged to review their financial performance on Creditsafe and read information about how that data is collected and used prior to submitting a tender. Information and the opportunity to run a free report can be found at http://www.creditsafe.com/products/business-credit-reports/
If a tenderer does not agree with the credit rating it has been given by Creditsafe it can provide supporting evidence to demonstrate its current position and this will be taken into account when the financial standing is being assessed.
If a tenderer is not listed on Creditsafe, for whatever reason, then it may be asked to submit equivalent accounts to enable the required assessment of financial standing to be carried out.
Tenderers should have a Creditsafe credit rating of 30 or higher to demonstrate satisfactory financial standing. If a tenderer has a lower credit rating score and has the backing of a parent company with a credit rating of 30 or higher, then the provision of a Parent Company Guarantee prior to the award of any contract will be acceptable. If a tenderer has a lower credit rating score and no evidence to support a stable or improved financial standing then the tender may be rejected.
With reference to ESPD questions 4B.5.1 and 4B.5.2 — it is a requirement 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:
With reference to ESPD question 4C.1.2 — this question will not be weighted but will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. Bidders will be required to provide up to 3 examples to demonstrate that it has the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. It is vital that bidders demonstrate experience of providing all of the elements of the services, as described in part II.2.4 of this Contract Notice, any element not covered in the example(s) will be regarded as a fail and bid will not be considered any further. Please note that all of the service can be spread across all examples or in one. A simple assertion will not be acceptable as evidence.
With reference to ESPD question 4C.10 — bidders will be required to confirm whether it intends to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
With reference to ESPD question 2A.18 — Lots are not considered appropriate for the nature of this requirement.
With reference to ESPD questions 2A.17, 2C and 2D — please ensure that any participants and subcontractors provide a separate ESPD.

Eligibility requirements: With reference to ESPD question 2A.16.5 — a response to this is not required. With reference to ESPD question 4A.1 — if required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. With reference to ESPD question 4.C.1.2 — Bidders will be required to provide up to three (3) examples to clearly demonstrate your experience in delivering all of the services as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. Please note that all of the services can be spread across all examples or in one. A simple assertion will not be acceptable as evidence.

Award value: 350000