Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-10-21
Buyer: Northern Ireland Tourist Board
Country: UK
Region: NORTHERN IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72243000 | 72500000 | 72600000
Estimated value: 1425000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-11-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Northern Ireland Tourist Board. NITB. has a requirement to maintain its existing Microsoft dotnet code base to support its e-commerce operations. The existing code base supports the Tourism NI and Legislative Database and is published through its websites discovernorthernireland.com and tourismni.com. The main requirement for this contract is to provide programming support to update existing. code and provide for new end user functionality. The Contractor will be required to work under the supervision of NITB 's ICT staff on programming work with the vast majority of the work being undertaken at NITB's premises.
The contract will be for an initial period of one. 1. year, commencing April 2017, with. 4. optional extension periods of one. 1. year each i.e. 1 + [1 + 1 + 1 + 1].
The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from (950 000 GBP to 1 425 000 GBP). This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which may result from future operational requirements. The pricing strategy applied and the setting of cost/profit margins are a commercial decision for economic operators when submitting a bid for this competition. In addition, neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. 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. This contract will not be awarded in Lots as a single supplier is required.
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: 1425000