Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-23
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72300000 | 72310000: Data processing services | 79100000
Estimated value: 24000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a pan government collaborative agreement for the provision of eDisclosure and Review Services for use by the UK Public Sector Buyers identified at VI.3).
The services provided are based upon the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and requirements of part 31 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR).
The lot based structure of this framework contract spans a wide and diverse customer base and require a variety of specialist services encompassed by the EDRM, but broadly some or all of the following eight (8) stages: strategic oversight, advice and support; document identification; document preservation and collection; document processing; document review; document production; disclosure from other opponent parties; and presentation at trial.
Lot 1: Simple Low Volume Work Service Package for Documents and Data with a Security Classification Up to ‘Official’ (and including ‘Official Sensitive’)
Provision of eDisclosure Services in respect of an overall initial dataset (pre-processing) of no more than 5 GBs Electronically Stored Information (‘ESI’) plus no more than 1 750 pages of hardcopy documents. The exercise will comprise the processing of one tranche of data (applying one set of date ranges and search terms), provision of a review platform, one production and potentially the loading and review of the other side’s data only.
Including all mandatory requirements that specifically relate to lot 1, as detailed in Framework Schedule 1 (Specification):
The framework term will be for 36 months, with the option to extend for a further 12 months at the discretion of CCS.
A framework contract will be awarded to three bidders for this lot. The maximum number of bidders may increase where two or more bidders have tied scores in last position. We also reserve the right to award to any bidder whose final score is within 1 % of the last position of this lot.
Lot 2: End to End Service Package for Documents and Data with a Security Classification Up to ‘Official’ (and including ‘Official Sensitive’)
Provision of an end to end service package for documents and data with a security classification up to ‘Official’ (and including ‘Official Sensitive’)
Including all mandatory requirements that specifically relate to lot 2, as detailed in Framework Schedule 1 (Specification):
The framework term will be for 36 months, with the option to extend for a further 12 months at the discretion of CCS.
A framework contract will be awarded to five bidders for this lot. The maximum number of bidders may increase where two or more bidders have tied scores in last position. We also reserve the right to award to any bidder whose final score is within 1 % of the last position of this lot.
Lot 3: Document Reviewers for Documents and Data with a Security Classification up to ‘Official’ (and including ‘Official Sensitive’)
The Supplier shall be able to provide all mandatory requirements that specifically relate to lot 3, as detailed in Framework Schedule 1(a):

Eligibility requirements: Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender (ITT) registering for access.

Award value: 24000000