Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-17
Buyer: Belfast Metropolitan College
Country: UK
Region: NORTHERN IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48190000 | 72000000 | 72212100: Industry specific software programming services
Estimated value: 600000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-03-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Belfast Metropolitan College. Belfast Met. is the largest Further and Higher Education College in Northern Ireland and the sixth largest in the UK with an average enrolment of some 30 000 students per year. It provides a wide range of services in education and training, addressing every level of provision from leisure to post graduate study. In an effort to deliver more effective teaching, learning and assessment, Belfast Metropolitan College would like to procure a ‘Learner Management System (LMS)’ that enables staff, and students, to easily produce, access and administer engaging online course content.
The contract will start on the Contract Commencement Date and will run for an initial period of five (5) years plus 2 optional extension periods consisting of two (2) years each i.e. 5+2+2.
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 12 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 contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 600000