Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-09
Buyer: InterTradeIreland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 73000000 | 73200000
Estimated value: 2789445 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
DfE Intertrade Ireland — Managing Agent for InterTradeIreland Innovation Boost Programme (Fusion Phase VI)
The Innovation Boost programme is the flagship project within InterTradeIreland’s Innovation portfolio. The programme seeks to embed innovation capability within businesses through collaboration with knowledge centres and the development of graduates. The contractor will be required to develop, manage and deliver the programme on behalf of ITI. Two key staff will be appointed by the contractor — a programme director who will be the primary point of contact with full autonomy for programme management, delivery and administration and an innovation boost office manager who will oversee and co-ordinate the administration of the programme. The initial 5 years of the contract will be to recruit all projects onto the programme and manage their delivery through to completion. The remaining 2 years will be to allow the contractor to oversee the delivery of the final projects through to completion and will not include the recruitment of any new companies onto the programme.
The innovation boost programme is the flagship project within InterTradeIreland’s Innovation portfolio. The programme seeks to embed innovation capability within businesses through collaboration with knowledge centres and the development of graduates. The contractor will be required to develop, manage and deliver the programme on behalf of ITI. Two key staff will be appointed by the contractor — a programme director who will be the primary point of contact with full autonomy for programme management, delivery and administration and an Innovation boost office manager who will oversee and co-ordinate the administration of the programme. The initial 5 years of the contract will be to recruit all projects onto the programme and manage their delivery through to completion. The remaining 2 years will be to allow the contractor to oversee the delivery of the final projects through to completion and will not include the recruitment of any new companies onto the programme.
The successful contractor’s performance on this contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 — Contract Management — Procedures and Principles). 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 notice of unsatisfactory performance and this contract may be terminated. A central register of such notices for supplies and services contracts will be maintained and published on the CPD website. Any contractor in receipt of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period of 3 years from the date of issue of the notice. It may also 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.


Winner: Helix Innovation Partnerships Ltd
Award value: 2789445
Number of bids: 2