Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-06-14
Buyer: Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72510000: Computer-related management services
Estimated value: 200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-07-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DoJ NICTS — Independent Assessment of Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service’s (NICTS’s) Line of Business landscape
The Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS) is heavily dependent on a Range of Line of Business (LOB) applications to help it support the administration of court and tribunal procedures. Over time, systems have been commissioned to support specific business areas, while other business areas either have nothing, or ad hoc solutions (spreadsheets, access databases, etc.) that have been developed by staff. NICTS needs to take strategic decisions regarding its LOB applications, in particular whether to significantly invest in these solutions as is; or to establish a number of major projects to take forward their replacement.
The Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS) is heavily dependent on a range of line of business (LOB) applications to help it support the administration of court and tribunal procedures. Over time, systems have been commissioned to support specific business areas, while other business areas either have nothing, or ad hoc solutions (spreadsheets, Access Databases, etc.) that have been developed by staff. NICTS needs to take strategic decisions regarding its LOB applications, in particular whether to significantly invest in these solutions as is; or to establish a number of major projects to take forward their replacement.
The client may, no later than 6 months prior to the initial contract period expiry date, give notice in writing to the contractor to invite the contractor to agree to extend the contract for any period up to and including 1 further period of 12 months commencing from the initial contract period expiry date (the ‘first extension period’).
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 issue of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will 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 for a period of 3 years from the date of issue of the notice.
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: 200000