Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-09
Buyer: Heriot Watt University
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48800000 | 72251000: Disaster recovery services
Estimated value: 650000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University is seeking proposals for a virtual infrastructure meeting our scope of requirements (capacity, performance and VMware compatibility) and a backup and recovery infrastructure including full data and system recovery in a major disaster recovery scenario. In addition, the solution should include the ability to backup and restore data from cloud based data stores and also the ability to run entire services and servers from a multi-region cloud platform.
The University reserves the right to extend the agreement for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and continuation of the University’s requirements.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 1 300,000 GBP for the last 3 years.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any contract, the types and levels of insurance listed below. Bidders also must confirm they can provide the following supporting evidence at point of award.
Bidders are not required to produce supporting documentary evidence at the time of submitting the ESPD (Scotland)/bid submission.
(i) Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
100 — Value add: the tenderer has provided a strong methodology addressing all the key points requested and has also provided detail of relevant value add that they can provide.
75 — Good: the tenderer response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provide details on how the requirements will be fulfilled.
50 — Acceptable: the tenderer has provided an acceptable methodology addressing most of the key points listed above in detail or the tenderer has provided all the key points listed above but lacks detail in answering the question fully. The response provides confidence that the requirements can be met.
25 — Minor concerns: the tenderer has provided a methodology addressing some of the key points listed above in detail or the tenderer has provided most of the key points listed above but lacks detail. The response provided does not provide confidence fully that the requirements can be met.
0 — Major concerns: the tenderer has failed to address the question, submitted a nil response or any element of the response gives cause for major concern.
(v) Tenderers will be asked to complete the following forms in the Technical Questionnaire in PCS-Tender: form of tender, bona fide of tender, freedom of information, supply chain code of conduct, parent company guarantee (if applicable).
(vii) Where the capability and capacity of a subcontractor, members of a consortia or any other body will be relied on to meet the selection criteria, separate ESPD are required from each of those other parties relied on. Where subcontractors are to be used but their capability and capacity are not relied on, University may choose to request separate ESPD.
(viii) Bidders are not required to produce supporting documentary evidence at the time of submitting the ESPD. However, where it is necessary to ensure the integrity and proper conduct of the procurement process, the University can request the evidence any time during the procurement process, all or part of the supporting documents from bidders. It is a discretionary ground for exclusion for a bidder not to be able to provide the ESPD supporting documents, or to withhold or misrepresent such information. More details on this can be found in the exclusion stage.


Award value: 650000