Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-09
Buyer: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
BBC Design and Engineering’s (D+E) Online Technology Group (OTG) is responsible for the operational management of all the BBC’s internet protocol (‘IP’) based services, devices and networks across all platforms (including cloud, on-premise and virtual machines (VMs), and the performance of these services as perceived by BBC’s end-users/audience. This includes responsibility for the BBC’s owned infrastructure and presence in the public or private cloud and, within that operational management, the responsibility to attain an uptime of 99.99 % for all BBC’s IP based services.
OTG is looking overall to create a flexible monitoring solution that is able to mix and match a number of interoperable monitoring products and hence allow BBC to use ‘best of breed’ products for each function and platform. Therefore, interoperability is key to BBC’s web monitoring services requirements.
BBC Design and Engineering’s (D+E) Online Technology Group (OTG) is responsible for the operational management of all the BBC’s internet protocol (‘IP’) based services, devices and networks across all platforms (including cloud, on-premise and virtual machines (VMs) and the performance of these services as perceived by BBC’s end-users/audience. This includes responsibility for the BBC’s owned infrastructure and presence in the public or private cloud and, within that operational management, the responsibility to attain an uptime of 99.99 % for all BBC’s IP based services.
OTG is looking overall to create a flexible monitoring solution that is able to mix and match a number of interoperable monitoring products and hence allow BBC to use ‘best of breed’ products for each function and platform. Therefore, interoperability is key to BBC’s web monitoring services requirements.
Where there is more than one economic operator, the BBC reserves the right to require a grouping of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
In the case of technology requirements, the BBC may involve its technology partner (Atos IT Solutions and Services Ltd) to assist in the scoping and drafting of invitations to tender and/or the evaluation of tenders. However, the final decision as to which is the most economically advantageous (by reference to the award criteria) will be made by the BBC. The awarding authority reserves the right not to award a contract and to annul the procurement process at any stage. Tenders and all supporting documents must be priced in sterling and all payments will be made in sterling. The contract shall be subject to English law. The awarding authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender and reserves the right to accept part of a tender unless the tenderer expressly stipulates otherwise in the tender document.
As stated in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The applicable review time limits shall be as stated in Regulations 92 and 93 Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Eligibility requirements: Where there is more than one economic operator, the BBC reserves the right to require a grouping of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.

Award value: 400000