Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-03
Buyer: Department for Infrastructure DfI
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 72224100: Systems implementation planning services
Estimated value: 1200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Department for Infrastructure (DfI) are seeking to appoint a contractor to support them to configure and implement a new Regional Planning IT System. DfI is the contracting authority on behalf of 12 planning authorities. The contracting authority's team consist of staff from Local Government and the Department and have a mixture of experience of delivering planning services, project management experience and IT experience. The contractor will be required to provide key staff for this project team and to provide support to the project team throughout the project.
The estimated value of this contract at sections II.1.5) and II.2.6) falls within the range of GBP 1 000 000 to GBP 1 200 000.
The estimated value of this contract at sections II.1.5) and II.2.6) falls within the range of GBP 1 000 000 to GBP 1 200 000. 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. The authority expressly reserves the rights:
(i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;
(ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition;
(iii) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and
(iv) to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.
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: 1200000