Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-02-26
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72315000: Data network management and support services | 72317000: Data storage services | 72510000: Computer-related management services
Estimated value: 30000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-03-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Cloud Services Framework Agreement will be Multi Supplier Framework. The scope will include the following:
To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access tender documentation please visit http//www.publictenderscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk search for Project Code 12501 under ITTs open to all suppliers.
The Authority, on behalf of Scottish Ministers are establishing a multi-supplier national Framework Agreement for the provision of cloud services. The key aims of the framework are to deliver efficient access to cloud services to the Scottish public sector offering value for money, in a safe, secure and environmentally friendly way.
The scope of the new collaborative arrangement will include: public cloud, private cloud, co-location services, community cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud transition services.
The cloud services framework will support the digital public services strategy and the data hosting and data centre strategy for the Scottish Public Sector https://www.gov.scot/publications/realising-scotlands-full-potential-digital-world-digital-strategy-scotland/ and https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-digital-future-data-hosting-data-centre-strategy-scottish-public/
The Framework Agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of Section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, councils constituted under Section 2 of the Local Government, etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, all NHS Scotland, The Integrated Joint Boards established further to the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act 2014, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Student Loans Company Ltd, the Forestry Commission, the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, the Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within the meaning of section 6 of the further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by 1 or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by 1 or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing. In addition to the contracting authorities listed, the framework agreement will be available to charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register and voluntary organisations entered on the Membership Database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Information about the Review of Public Procurement in Scotland and links to the other Centres of Expertise are available at:
To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access Tender documentation please visit http//www.publictenderscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk search for Project Code 12501 under ITTs open to all suppliers.
The framework duration will be initially 2 years with the option to extend by a further 2 years at the request of the Authority.
A form of Company Financial Assessment from each Tenderer is required. The tenderer financial risk will be evaluated as pass/fail.
There is no action required here for the tenderer, the Authority will undertake an action, using Dun and Bradstreet (D&B), to obtain a Financial Risk Score (D&B Failure Score) for the tenderer and any consortia or reliance members.
If the score is less than 40 or no financial risk score is available we will contact the tenderer and seek further information. We will then use this further information to assess the tenderer’s level of financial risk. If this assessment identifies an unmanageable risk (i.e. it is unacceptable) the Tenderer will fail this assessment.
In the event that the tenderer does not meet the financial criteria above, they may still be considered via some form of other assurance e.g. Parent Company Guarantee (providing parent has a financial risk score of over 40) or a performance bond.
There must be no qualification or contra-indication from any evidence provided in support of the tenderers economic and financial standing.

Eligibility requirements: n.a

Award value: 30000000