Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-29
Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 22200000 | 72310000: Data processing services | 79300000 | 79310000 | 79330000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-02-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS), as the authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of media monitoring and associated services to be utilised by central government departments, all other UK public sector bodies, including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue, education and devolved administrations. It is intended that this commercial agreement will be the recommended vehicle for all media monitoring and associated services.
This agreement will be for the monitoring and analysis of media coverage to enable the evaluation of communications campaigns. Associated additional services will also be included.
This framework will provide buyers with services for the monitoring of specified keywords and topics across multiple media types (including press, online, social and/or broadcast media), along with human-driven evaluation and analysis of the monitored media, as specified by individual buyers.
Crown Commercial Service, as the authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of media monitoring and associated services for use by central government and all other UK public sector bodies.
It is intended that this commercial agreement will be the recommended vehicle for all media monitoring and associated services required by UK Central Government Departments.
This framework will have a single lot which will cover all media monitoring and associated services either through the mandatory core services provided or non-mandatory optional services, as requested by the buyers.
The initial duration of the framework agreement is for 2 years with an option to extend for up to a further 2 periods of 12 months at the authority's discretion.
This Lot 1 is for the provision of press, online, social media and broadcast monitoring, and human-driven evaluation and analysis of the monitored media.
It is envisaged that this framework contract will be awarded to 5 suppliers for this lot. The maximum number of bidders for this lot may increase, where 2 or more bidders have tied scores in last position.
We also reserve the right to award a framework to any bidder whose final score is within 1 % of the last position.
Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender (ITT) registering for access.
Bidders will be assessed in accordance with the Invitation to Tender (ITT). Crown Commercial Service may take into account the following information:
2) A statement of your turnover, profit and loss account/income statement cash, balance sheet/statement of financial position and statement of cash flow for the most recent year of trading;
3) A statement of your cash flow forecast for the current year and a bank letter outlining the current cash; and
We will use a credit reference agency (Dun and Bradstreet) to obtain a financial risk score (D&B Failure Score) for you and any members of your consortium or any nominated guarantor(s).

Eligibility requirements: Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the Directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an Invitation to Tender (ITT) registering for access.

Award value: 10000000