Public procurement notice: Dynamic Purchasing System
Published: 2017-12-19
Buyer: JISC
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 80500000
Estimated value: 5000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-01-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: JISC is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System that will enable Jisc to easily purchase value for money and high quality training courses, training facilitators and training course development services in order to provide training to its members and customers from the education and research sector.
Lot 1 concerns training courses for the education sector, these may be either face to face or online and must fall under one of the required categories:
IP networking, network equipment and infrastructure, hardware platforms, telephony and VOIP, cyber security and information management, trust and identity, cloud computing (including SaaS platforms), virtualisation, wireless networking and equipment, data privacy, IT policies, IT service management, IT systems, Microsoft Office applications, Learning platform design and implementation, IT service desk operations and management, digital capabilities, curriculum design, learning analytics, digital resources, project management, the prevent duty, library service platforms, collections management, resource discovery, open access, Leadership and coaching.
The initial term of the DPS is 12 months. There is an option to extend the DPS for 24 months after this initial period. Following this, a further extension of 24 months is available (total possible DPS duration is 60 months).
Lot 2 concerns training facilitators to deliver Jisc courses on specific topics listed: IP networking, network equipment and infrastructure, hardware platforms, telephony and VOIP, cyber security and information management, trust and identity, cloud computing (including SaaS platforms), virtualisation, wireless networking and equipment, data privacy, IT policies, IT service management, IT systems, Microsoft Office applications, Learning platform design and implementation, IT service desk operations and management, digital capabilities, curriculum design, learning analytics, digital resources, project management, the prevent duty, library service platforms, collections management, resource discovery, open access, Leadership and coaching.
The initial term of the DPS is 12 months. There is an option to extend the DPS for 24 months after this initial period. Following this, a further extension of 24 months is available (total possible DPS duration is 60 months).
Lot 3 concerns co-development of new training courses for the education sector either face to face or online, in at least one of the following areas: IP networking, network equipment and infrastructure, hardware platforms, telephony and VOIP, cyber security and information management, trust and identity, cloud computing (including SaaS platforms), virtualisation, wireless networking and equipment, data privacy, IT policies, IT service management, IT systems, Microsoft Office applications, Learning platform design and implementation, IT service desk operations and management, digital capabilities, curriculum design, learning analytics, digital resources, project management, the prevent duty, library service platforms, collections management, resource discovery, open access, Leadership and coaching.
The initial term of the DPS is 12 months. There is an option to extend the DPS for 24 months after this initial period. Following this, a further extension of 24 months is available (total possible DPS duration is 60 months).
Each interested supplier is required to register its intention to submit a response to the Request to Participate Questionnaire via the Jisc e-tendering portal at https://tenders.jisc.ac.uk
Suppliers can submit a completed Request to Participate at any stage in the lifetime of the Training Dynamic Purchasing System.
JISC will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 article 91 provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court(England, Wales and Northern Ireland).


Award value: 5000000