Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-01-10
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72253000: Helpdesk and support services | 72260000: Software-related services | 72500000
Estimated value: 28000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-02-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Scottish ministers are seeking to establish a Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) service support contract. The contract will provide service and contract management support activities including data centre infrastructure and hosting, service desk support, deployment of PECOS.
The P2P service support contract will include but not be limited to the following key components and services:
1) A primary data centre and a disaster recovery centre (including support and maintenance of all applications, data, software and hardware; all system administration & operating systems; all databases; and contingency, continuity and backup recovery). The primary data centre is to be located within the Scottish Government’s data centre at Saughton House, Edinburgh;
Scottish Government currently operates the P2P service through a licence agreement which provides perpetual rights to Elcom PECOS software. To enable delivery of the P2P support services required under this procurement, tenderers will be responsible for identifying and obtaining the relevant and necessary application licences.
The contract may be extended beyond the original contract duration of 60 months by up to a further 24 months.
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.
This section refers to section B of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) and questions 4B.4 and 4B.5.1 to 4B.5.3:
There must be no qualification or contraindication from any evidence provided in support of the bidders economic and financial standing.
In the event that the bidder does not meet the financial criteria for consideration but has a parent company that does, the tenderer may still be eligible for consideration where their Tender Submission is supported by a Parent Company Guarantee. Where the bidder does not have a Parent Company some other form of assurance such as a performance bond may be acceptable.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types of insurance indicated below:
The authority reserves the right to request copies of financial accounts and insurance certificates which are not held electronically.
Tenderers will be provided with the opportunity to visit and ask questions relating to the Scottish Government Data Centre location at Broomhouse Drive, Saughton House, Edinburgh, EH11 3XD. Visits to the data centre will take place on 23 January 2018 at 10:30 and tenderers should confirm, by email, their intention to attend and the names of those attending to dawn.swan@gov.scot. This information should be provided no later than 19 January 2018. Please note that attendance will be restricted to a maximum of 2 individuals per supplier.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The project code is 9256. For more information, see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343.
A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information, see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363


Award value: 28000000