Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-17
Buyer: North Lanarkshire Council
Country: UK
Region: North Lanarkshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 405000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-03-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Council is seeking an established assessment solution for standardised testing of literacy and numeracy in school children.
The Council wishes to procure a solution which is already tried and tested in the market place. It is not looking to commission the development of such a solution.
The intention is for pupil attainment to be assessed at a number of year stages and cumulatively, over time, to inform the Council's school improvement agenda. This will be at stages P3, P5, P7 and S2.
The data and analysis should inform decision-making by teachers, schools managers and authority officers about ways in which educational provision for individual and groups of children might be tailored to maximise its effectiveness.
Together with teacher judgement this data and analysis will provide a baseline of pupil attainment that is needed to measure interventions from the Challenge Attainment North Lanarkshire Project.
The Council are looking to procure a single/unified integrated solution provided by one supplier which is already tried and tested in the market place. It is not looking to commission the development of such a solution. The intention is for pupil attainment to be assessed at a number of year stages and cumulatively, over time, to inform the Council's school improvement agenda. This will be at stages P3, P5, P7 and S2. The solution must be capable of being administered across 120 primary schools and 23 secondary schools with in excess 5 000 desktop computers. The current number of pupils in each of the relevant year groups is for Assessment period: March-May 2017; P3 Pupils 4107; P5 Pupils 4067; P7 Pupils 3866; S2 Pupils 3818. The solution must be able to be administered simultaneously across a number of classes comprising up to 33 pupils. Full implementation of the solution must be ready for use in schools by March/April 2017.
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 response to these questions for Economic and Financial Standing will be evaluated as follows:
Fail = response is not compliant with the minimum requirement stated in the Contract Notice section III.1.2) Economic and financial standing.
4B.1.1 Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of 270 000 GBP for the last 3 years.
4B.3 Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
4B.5.1, 4B.5.2 It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies as described in part II.2.4 of the OJEU Contract Notice or the relevant section of the Site Notice.
The Invitation To Tender and supporting documentation may be accessed and downloaded from the Public Contracts Scotland Portal at http//www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
To access these documents Tenderers will firstly need to register (if they have not already done so) on the Public Contracts Scotland Portal and then express interest in this particular procurement.

Eligibility requirements: Not Used.

Award value: 405000