Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-04-14
Buyer: Scottish Enterprise
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48610000: Database systems
Estimated value: 160000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-05-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Scottish Enterprise wishes to appoint a supplier who can provide a database that looks to enhance our internal capabilities to understand the investor landscape with regards to current market trends, investor investment preferences and specific global deal flow analysis. It is anticipated that this contract will commence in June 2017.
The contract will provide licences to an international investment database that enables individuals within SE (an estimated 10) to have access to data on international investment markets. This specifically includes knowledge of the following:
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulations 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Q4B.1.2, Bidders will be required to have an annual turnover of a minimum 40 000 GBP for the last 2 years.
Q4B.3, 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 or started trading.
Q4B.4, Bidders will be required to state the value for the liquidity ratio. The Liquidity ratio should be equal to or greater than 0.8.
Q4.5.1, Please confirm whether you already have or can commit to obtain, prior to the commencement of the contract, appropriate levels of insurance for this contract. Bidders that do not already have, or can commit to obtain insurances maybe excluded from further participation in this procurement exercise.
Public Liability Insurance — Bidders should state the value they consider to be appropriate for the contract.
Professional Indemnity Insurance — Bidders should state the value they consider to be appropriate for the contract.
Q4C.1.2, Bidders will be required to provide 2 examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of the OJEU Contract Notice or the relevant section of the Site Notice. These will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. Pass equals providing two examples detailing relevant experience to deliver the contract. Fail equals failure to provide 2 examples detailing relevant experience to deliver the contract. Bidders can submit examples in a separate document to allow room to provide details of the services provided.
Dates and other information contained in this notice are communicated as being indicative only and may be subject to change.
The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in or tendering for this contract.
Compliance with all relevant legislation is required during the tendering process and the terms of any resulting contract.
The contracting authority reserves the right to source the services through existing framework agreements.
The contracting authority reserves the right to assign all or part of any contracts resulting from this process.


Award value: 160000