Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-02-12
Buyer: SSE Services Plc
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72253000: Helpdesk and support services | 72300000 | 72400000
Estimated value: 150000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-02-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Infrastructure operations and support services — full details available in procurement documents that can be accessed upon expression of interest sent to Fit.Procurement@sse.com
SSE Services Plc is a subsidiary of SSE Plc and currently procures and provides infrastructure operations and support services on behalf of and for the SSE Group of Companies. SSE Services Plc currently manages SSE’s IT infrastructure operations and related support service using mainly in-house services with a small number of specific area under a managed service with external suppliers.
Through the accelerated adoption of cloud services and the transition of current “on premise” technology solutions to more flexible and cost controllable ways of working, the authority wishes to deliver more value to the business, drive down the cost to serve and make it easier for the business to engage IT.
To achieve these outcomes, the authority wishes to explore options for entering into a partnership agreement with a suitable supplier for the delivery of its IT infrastructure operations (scope of related service lines are highlighted below). It is the intention of SSE Services to award a contract to a prime Supplier to continue the provision and delivery of these services to the SSE Group and in accordance with the agreed terms of the contract.
— strategy and management (project and professional services including service transition and Service Integration and Management (SIAM)),
If any of the SSE Group is divested during the term of the contract SSE Services Plc may continue to provide services to that divested entity(s) for a minimum period of 12 months. The volumes underneath each of the service lines will be amended in accordance with any divestment that may occur.
An initial contract term of 3 years is anticipated with a unilateral option for SSE Services Plc to extend such contract by (up to) 2 x 12 month extension periods.
All procurement documentation pertaining to this PQQ will be accessible via an External SharePoint Site.
Access to the External SharePoint Site will be granted upon an expression of interest being sent via email to potential suppliers to fit.procurement@sse.com.
The email requesting access should contain a maximum of three first name, last name and email addresses of users from the potential supplier that are to be granted access to the External SharePoint Site. Users (to the maximum of 3) can be added at any time up to the closing date for clarification questions by emailing first name, last name and email address to fit.procurement@sse.com.
An initial contract term of 3 years is anticipated with a unilateral option for SSE Services Plc to extend such contract by (up to) 2 x 12 month extension periods.
All potential suppliers that fulfil/pass the objective criteria for the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (found in the procurement documents) will automatically be taken through to the next stage of the procurement process.
SSE Services Plc may disqualify any potential supplier who fails to comply with the requirements set out in the procurement documents provided upon expression of interest being sent to Fit.Procurement@sse.com
The PQQ is based purely on objective pass/fail scoring criteria that measures a potential supplier’s knowledge, financial standing, experience and capability against the requirements.

Eligibility requirements: SSE Services Plc may disqualify any potential supplier who fails to comply with the requirements set out in the procurement documents provided upon expression of interest being sent to Fit.Procurement@sse.com The PQQ is based purely on objective pass/fail scoring criteria that measures a potential supplier’s knowledge, financial standing, experience and capability against the requirements. All questions identified within the “Mandatory Criteria” are classified as such and an unsatisfactory answer to these questions will lead to an automatic exclusion. All potential suppliers that give a satisfactory answer to all questions in this document will be taken through to the next stage of the procurement event. SSE Services Plc is permitting that potential suppliers self-certify that a response of “yes” is correct and supporting evidence for the mandatory criteria is not required at this stage. However, SSE Services Plc reserves the right to verify all or any responses at any stage during the process, and where that reveals that the response was incorrect, the potential supplier may be eliminated. All questions in the “Information Only” worksheet of the procurement documents are classified as such. SSE Services Plc may seek independent financial and market advice to validate information declared, or to assist in the evaluation of the potential supplier’s response throughout the procurement event.

Award value: 150000000