Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-11-05
Buyer: Langstane Housing Association Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 50312600 | 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 182000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-12-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Langstane Housing Association is seeking a suitably experienced IT service provider to work with the Association. We require a reliable, resilient and performing IT infrastructure to help support its strategic development over the next 3 years and to support day to day business operations. The key outputs required will be:
— replacement of all current virtualised servers to a new virtual platform and upgrading operating systems where appropriate,
— reliable and resilient hosted service for delivering IT infrastructure including business continuity services for all components of the infrastructure,
The ESPD will be assessed to ensure all bidders pass the threshold criteria for working with a public body and questions 4C.1.2, 4C.2,4C.4, 4C.6 and 4C.6.1 and 4C.8.1 and 4.c.8.2. The 5 bidders who have passed all other sections will be invited to go through to the tender stage of the procurement procedure. If less than 5 bidders pass all sections of the ESPD only the bidders who pass all sections will be allowed to proceed to tender stage. If the Association decide there is insufficient acceptable bidders the procurement may be cancelled.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The bidder must provide their company number and must have BS OHSAS 18001 (or equivalent) or have within the last 12 months or are in the process of working toward successfully meeting the assessment requirements of the above related scheme and registered membership. The bidder must hold a UKAS or equivalent non-UKAS accreditation or accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent) or the bidder must have a relevant signed quality policy.
Please refer to these statements when completing Section 4B of the ESPD (Scotland). Question Reference 4B.2.1 The bidder should have a specific yearly turnover of 540 000 GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract. Langstane Housing Association will request annual accounts from bidder as evidence.
Question Reference 4B.3 Where turnover information is not available for the period requested the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
Question Reference 4B.5.1 It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequent awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrates that they have relevant experience to deliver the works as described in Part 11.1.4 of the contract notice.
In response to Question 4C.1.2 Bidders will be required to provide no more than 3 examples of a similar scope, size and nature, within the last 3 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the works.
The projects must therefore be predominately works in ICT Infrastructure and Support Services. Examples must be taken from contracts where the bidder was working as the main contractor. The contracts put forward as evidence for this must have been on-going for at least 12 months and the bidder must be able to provide evidence of this.
In response to Question 4C.2 Bidders will be required to confirm details of the technicians or technical bodies who they can call upon, especially those responsible for quality control. The bidder should hold ISO 2000, ISO 22301, ISO 27018 *ISO 27032, ISO 27040, ISO 17789, ISO 31000. *Refers to cloud hosted services rather than a physical infrastructure and scoring will be considered depending on the bidders preferred proposal method.
In response to Question 4C.4. Bidders will be required to provide details of relevant supply chain management and tracking systems required e.g. stock/IT systems utilised, logistics management.
In response to Question 4C.6 and 4C.6.1 Bidders will be required to provide evidence of professional qualifications held by the service provider and managerial staff delivering the contract.

Eligibility requirements: The bidder must provide their company number and must have BS OHSAS 18001 (or equivalent) or have within the last 12 months or are in the process of working toward successfully meeting the assessment requirements of the above related scheme and registered membership. The bidder must hold a UKAS or equivalent non-UKAS accreditation or accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent) or the bidder must have a relevant signed quality policy.

Award value: 182000