Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-12
Buyer: International Post Corporation
Country: BE
Region: ÖSTERREICH
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72510000: Computer-related management services
Submission deadline: 2016-07-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: IPC is looking for a supplier to set up and run an inbound terminal dues test letter measurement, including panels recruitment, test letter production, validation and panel management activities for a continuous postal quality of service measurement. This involves (amongst other things, and subject to additional requirements, limitations, clarifications, etc. contained in the definition and/or description of lots, variants and options, as per this contract notice or subsequent tender documents) the preparation, induction and receipt by sender and receiver panellists of test letters (P, G and/or packets letter mail formats), the use of passive RFID transponders, the recruitment and management of the panellists, the validation of the activities by the panel and the data provided by the panel and provision of relevant data to IPC.
Lot 1 covers the European inbound TD measurement of the P (Petit or C6 and C5 envelopes), G (Grand or C4 envelopes) and packets (untracked packets or E formats) priority (or airmail) letter mail from maximum 26 European origins into Austria.
As per the main scenario, contractors should use IPC's UMMS tool. This is without prejudice to the variants, options or combination of lots that will be defined in the tender documents.
The scope of the contract is to set up and run this measurement in maximum 27 countries (AT, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI and SK) with a receiver panel size between 10 and 80 panellists in Austria and a single sender panellist in every origin country. This lot covers between 1 000 and 8 000 test letters sent into Austria. The detailed design will be clarified in the tender documentation.
Subject to further requirements, limitations, and/or clarifications in the tender documents, bidders will be invited to submit an offer for the following variants or options or combination of lots and to describe, in that case, the related cost model improvement and/or economies of scale (cfr. art. 88 of the Royal Decree of 15.7.2012):
— running a Quality of Service measurement with limited use of IPC's UMMS tool and the use of their own tool for specific QoS monitoring activities;
— running a Quality of Service measurement for a combination of all 27 lots; the bidder will, in that case, describe economies of scale, as provided for by article 88 of the Royal Decree of 16.7.2012; in addition, the bidder will make an offer covering the situation where he would only run a Quality of Service measurement for packets (E format letter mail) for the same combination of 27 countries and describe, in that case, the related cost model improvement;
— running a Quality of Service measurement for one or more groupings of countries (e.g., per region) as deemed more economically advantageous by the bidder; not all countries need to be included; the bidder will, in that case, describe economies of scale, as provided for by article 88 of the Royal Decree of 16.7.2012.
Lot 2 covers the European inbound TD measurement of the P (Petit or C6 and C5 envelopes), G (Grand or C4 envelopes) and packets (untracked packets or E formats) priority (or airmail) letter mail from maximum 26 European origins into Belgium.
As per the main scenario, contractors should use IPC's UMMS tool. This is without prejudice to the variants, options or combination of lots that will be defined in the tender documents.
The scope of the contract is to set up and run this measurement in maximum 27 countries (AT, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI and SK) with a receiver panel size between 10 and 80 panellists in Belgium and a single sender panellist in every origin country. This lot covers between 1 000 and 8 000 test letters sent into Belgium. The detailed design will be clarified in the tender documentation.
Subject to further requirements, limitations, and/or clarifications in the tender documents, bidders will be invited to submit an offer for the following variants or options or combination of lots and to describe, in that case, the related cost model improvement and/or economies of scale (cfr. art. 88 of the Royal Decree of 15.7.2012):
— running a Quality of Service measurement with limited use of IPC's UMMS tool and the use of their own tool for specific QoS monitoring activities;
— running a Quality of Service measurement for a combination of all 27 lots; the bidder will, in that case, describe economies of scale, as provided for by article 88 of the Royal Decree of 16.7.2012; in addition, the bidder will make an offer covering the situation where he would only run a Quality of Service measurement for packets (E format letter mail) for the same combination of 27 countries and describe, in that case, the related cost model improvement;
— running a Quality of Service measurement for one or more groupings of countries (e.g., per region) as deemed more economically advantageous by the bidder; not all countries need to be included; the bidder will, in that case, describe economies of scale, as provided for by article 88 of the Royal Decree of 16.7.2012.