Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2016-11-26
Buyer: Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Country: UK
Region: Northern Ireland
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 64210000 | 64216000 | 64216100 | 64216110 | 64222000

Technical requirements: Further essential ICT development work and changes are required to continue to meet mandated EU delivery targets within very tight timescales. The next critical milestones will involve the design and development of an. EU Environmental Farming Scheme. EFS. ,refinement of the key controls to the claims process, functionality to allow Entitlements.. trading, enhanced Ecological Focus Area. EFA. capability, Advance payments and meeting an EU mandated 50 percent uptake target for. DAERA's Geospatial Aid Application. GSAA. . This work requires significant development of current ICT systems to align with the new CAP requirements, as well as the development of new systems and controls. The scale of. development and ICT work required is considerable with the overall CAP Reform Programme scheduled to run until 2019.
The Public Contract Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have.. been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Further essential ICT development work and changes are required to continue to meet mandated EU delivery targets within very tight timescales. The next critical milestones will involve the design and development of an EU Environmental Farming Scheme. EFS. refinement of the key controls to the claims process, functionality to allow Entitlements.. trading, enhanced Ecological Focus Area. EFA. capability, Advance payments and meeting an EU mandated 50 percent uptake target for. DAERA's Geospatial Aid Application. GSAA. . This work requires significant development of current ICT systems to align with the new CAP.. requirements, as well as the development of new systems and controls. The scale of. development and ICT work required is considerable with the overall CAP Reform Programme scheduled to run until 2019.
Central Procurement Directorate on behalf of DAERA has modified a contract in accordance with Regulation 72. 1. . b. of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The scope of this contract remains true to the original procurement and the services required are as specified. The contract has been modified by 2 400 000 GBP
The regulations allow for a. contract to be modified without a new procurement procedure under the following circumstances which are relevant to the DAERA. requirement; . for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor that have become necessary and were not included in. the initial procurement, where a change of contractor—. .. . I. cannot be made for economic or technical reasons such as requirements. of interchangeability or interoperability with existing equipment, services or installations procured under the initial procurement, and. .. ii. would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the. contracting authority. provided that any increase in. price does not exceed 50 per cent of the value of the original contract;.