Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-01
Buyer: North Ayrshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48333000 | 48430000 | 72000000 | 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 260000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
North Ayrshire Council require a cloud-based system to manage the data regarding its Road (Highways) assets including lighting and structures. The current licenses and databases in use will be replaced with one cloud-based solution. The current licenses and databases will be replaced with one Software as a Service (SAAS) solution.
— provide a planning service to work with the Council to understand both the business and technical priorities for implementing the new system;
— provide engagement that will include onsite planning and technical workshops and the delivery of a deployment plan with recommendations;
— fully implement the new system using a phased approach, beginning with Test users before expanding out on a team by team basis;
— carry out a mobilisation period with dual running of the systems being necessary during this stage whilst users migrate from the old system to the new systems;
— train a select number of NAC employees as ‘Super Users’ so that a sufficient level of expertise exists within roads.
For completion by Non-UK businesses only — 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.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of GBP 120 000 for the last 3 years in the specific business area covered by the contract.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
NAC reserve the right to review the bidders’ financial information including information from credit reference agencies at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract, and seek clarifications if necessary. If clarifications are not satisfactory the bidder may be excluded from the tender process.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Public liability insurance = GBP 5 000 000 (with confirmation that this extends to software liability cover);
Bidders will be required to provide 3 examples, within the last 5 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of this contract notice. The experience provided will be for projects of a similar value, size and scope.
Bidders must provide 2 satisfactory references from 2 contracts within the last 3 years on the reference templates provided in the instruction to tenders document. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar nature, value scope and size. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process. Completed reference templates must be uploaded into the general attachments area of the qualification envelope in PCS-T.

Eligibility requirements: For completion by Non-UK businesses only — 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.

Award value: 260000