Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-10-13
Buyer: The Council For The Curriculum Examinations Assessment
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48100000 | 72000000 | 72212100: Industry specific software programming services | 75121000
Estimated value: 11000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-11-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: CCEA wishes to contract for the Online Marking for the examination series commencing in January 2019. The contract will require the scanning and indexing of examination scripts, electronic marking of the images and processing of the item level information. The Contractor will be required to: Understand CCEA's existing examination processes.  Provide high quality scanning and online marking software; Identify and provide suitable premises for confidential scanning of scripts;  Conduct the scanning and indexing; · Provide training to the users; Provide helpdesk support; · Provide contract management and support services;  Develop additional functionality (if required) in response to future technological changes.
CCEA wishes to contract for the Online Marking for the examination series commencing in January 2019. The contract will require the scanning and indexing of examination scripts, electronic marking of the images and processing of the item level information. The Contractor will be required to: Understand CCEA's existing examination processes. · Provide high quality scanning and online marking software; Identify and provide suitable premises for confidential scanning of scripts; Conduct the scanning and indexing; · Provide training to the users; Provide helpdesk support; · Provide contract management and support services; Develop additional functionality (if required) in response to future technological changes.
The initial term is 7 years to include an approx. one year period to allow for implementation followed by 6 years from the service commencement date. There will be two optional extension periods of 2 years each.
The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from (9 000 000 GBP to 13 500 000 GBP). This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which may result. from future operational requirements. 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 Notice of Unsatisfactory. Performance and the contract may be terminated. The effect of the Notice will be to enable any Department, at its discretion, to exclude. the supplier from future procurement competitions being undertaken for a period of three years. 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 the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision.


Award value: 11000000