Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-02-16
Buyer: NIE Networks Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 42961100 | 44221310 | 50116100 | 50324100 | 50324200
Estimated value: 3314000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting entity intends to establish a framework arrangement under which it shall appoint economic operators to enter into either separate framework agreements for the provision of security services across three (3) separate lots or lot 4. Each framework agreement will be for a period of three (3) years with an option, exercisable entirely at the discretion of the contracting entity and subject to the terms of the framework agreement, to extend by a further optional period of up to two (2) years, with a total potential duration of five (5) years.
• establish, maintain and monitor the integrity of the security at specified NIE Networks sites using CCTV, PIDS (Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems, Dual Security and Fire Alarms and other technical and physical security measures to protect NIE Networks' physical assets, critical infrastructure and material at specified sites;
• control and supervise access to each designated site by pedestrians and vehicular traffic, managing access of approved staff, visitors and contractors. The Economic Operator shall provide NIE Networks with an instruction of procedures for each site prior to the commencement of the contract;
• monitor and report all equipment failures, incidents and any other event necessary to ensure the protection of NIE property and assets.
If this lot is awarded the contracting entity will enter into a framework agreement with one economic operator for this lot (in the form attached at Appendix M of the Tender Documents) with call-off contracts allocated on a direct award basis, as set out in the call-off procedure (in Appendix C of the Tender Documents).
Each framework agreement will be for a period of three (3) years with an option, exercisable entirely at the discretion of the contracting entity and subject to the terms of the framework agreement, to extend by a further optional period of up to two (2) years, with a total potential duration of five (5) years.
• maintenance of existing CCTV, PIDS(Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems) and other technical and physical security measures in order to aid NIE Networks keep secure its' physical assets, critical infrastructure and material at specified sites as agreed with NIE Networks to meet current and emerging threats;
• installation of new CCTV, (Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems) PIDS and other technical and physical security measures in order to aid NIE Networks keep secure its' physical assets, critical infrastructure and material at specified sites as agreed with NIE Networks to meet current and emerging threats.
If this lot is awarded the contracting entity will enter into a framework agreement with one economic operator for this lot (in the form attached at Appendix M of the Tender Documents) with call-off contracts allocated on a direct award basis, as set out in the call-off procedure (in Appendix C of the tender documents)
Each framework agreement will be for a period of three (3) years with an option, exercisable entirely at the discretion of the contracting entity and subject to the terms of the framework agreement, to extend by a further optional period of up to two (2) years, with a total potential duration of five (5) years.
The contracting entity will not award a framework agreement for all four (4) lots. It is the contracting entity's intention, following conclusion of the procurement process, to award either:
(a) a framework agreement to the successful economic operator(s) for each of Lot 1 and Lot 2 and 3; or
The procurement documents detail the criteria and process to be adopted to determine whether the contracting entity awards separate framework agreements for Lots 1 and 2 and 3 or a single framework agreement for Lot 4. The choice between Lots will be based on the basis of both the quality and price proposals put forward by economic operators.
— Craigavon - 1 guard 7.00 to 18.30, Monday to Thursday, 7.00 to 17.30 Friday, excluding bank and public holidays.
• On occasion the use of mobile patrols to visit designated sites in a specific geographic area and short notice deployment of guards to designated sites for a short period.


Winner: RE:SURE Intelligence Ltd
Award value: 3314000
Number of bids: 5