Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-05-05
Buyer: Leicestershire County Council t/a ESPO
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Leicestershire County Council on behalf of ESPO is seeking a supplier to develop a website to encompass both their procurement framework and catalogue requirements.
ESPO is looking for a provider to develop and implement a website to encompass both their procurement framework and catalogue requirements, rather than have two separate instances. This new website will require a cloud based CMS platform to manage ESPO’s 25 000 products and procurement framework portfolio as well as ESPO’s general content as outlined above.
The CMS platform will need to have the functionality required to support the new website. ESPO is looking for suppliers to either provide the CMS Platform as part of its solution or, alternatively, to identify its recommended CMS Platform for ESPO to licence directly with the CMS Platform vendor on terms to be identified as part of its tender.
The new website will need to allow for seamless transition of processes and data from the existing websites and to eventually retire the existing sites.
• a modern website design that is optimised for mobile devices, meets all accessibility and security standards and uses appropriate design features to maximise customer engagement;
• detailed analytics and reporting functions to improve understanding of user experience and enable continuous improvement of the website based on user behaviour data;
• a website design that is optimised for mobile devices, meets all accessibility and security standards and uses appropriate design features to maximise customer engagement.
The Council published a PIN in respect of this procurement with reference 2019/S 021-045876. The Council then proceeded to run a procurement for the opportunity under the restricted procedure. The PIN did not amount to a call for competition as it did not contain all of the information required pursuant to Regulation 48(5) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR). However, the PIN clearly generated a high degree of interest in the opportunity and the Council received 152 expressions of interest. All those who expressed an interest were invited to tender for the eventual opportunity, and seven requests to participate were received.
While no formal call for competition was published, the Council has otherwise conducted the procurement in compliance with the PCR and the underlying Treaty principles of non-discrimination, transparency and proportionality. Given the large number of responses to the PIN, it is clear that market operators actively search out and engage with potential opportunities to provide their services and the Council considers that the lack of a call for competition is not likely to have materially prejudiced competition. Therefore, the Council has entered into contract with the preferred bidder identified through the procurement process. Organisations who requested to participate but were unsuccessful have been informed of this fact and been provided with the information required under Regulation 86 of the PCR.


Winner: Maginus Software Solutions Ltd
Number of bids: 7