Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-11-12
Buyer: University College London
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48219300 | 48810000: Information systems

Technical requirements: UCL is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to obtain details regarding an Animal Management System (AMS). This is not an invitation to tender (ITT), nor is it a Request for Proposal (RFP). This is a request for information (RFI) only. This RFI is issued for the purpose of conducting a soft market testing exercise and does not constitute any commitment by UCL to undertake any public procurement exercise in the future. This document provides an overview of the scope and intent of a future tendering opportunity in advance of the release of the formal contract notice and invitation to tender documentation to vendors. UCL may use the information gained from this RFI to help develop and shape its requirements and invitation to tender documentation. For the avoidance of doubt, any requirements, either stated in this document or that may be inferred from what follows, may be subject to change and will be superseded by the content of the full invitation to tender (ITT) document which will be released once the formal contract notice for this procurement has been issued. Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to the soft market testing exercise and a response to this RFI does not guarantee any invitation to participate in this soft market testing exercise or any future public procurement process that UCL may conduct. This RFI notice does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services, supplies or works for UCL. Any procurement of any services, supplies or works by UCL in due course will be carried out in a separate procurement exercise. UCL is not a contracting authority or a body governed by public law as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This procurement process is not regulated by EU or UK public procurement law. Where UCL advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. UCL reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as UCL considers necessary.
Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to the soft market testing exercise and a response to this PIN does not guarantee any invitation to participate in this soft market testing exercise or future public procurement process that UCL may conduct and UCL is not bound to accept any proposals offered. UCL is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party participating in the soft market testing exercise or briefing day. UCL reserve the right to issue one tender with or without lots or several individual tenders with or without lots in order to meet our requirements. Please note the anticipated 6.3.2017 date for commencement of the tendering exercise(s) is an estimated date only. UCL reserves the right to amend it as it sees fit and to reduce the tender timescales as permitted by under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.