Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-28
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 32410000 | 32420000 | 48000000 | 50300000 | 51000000
Estimated value: 2000000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Crown Commercial Service as the contracting authority is putting in place a Pan Government Collaborative Framework Agreement for use by UK public sector bodies identified at VI.3) (and any future successors to these organisations), which include Central Government Departments and their Arm’s Length Bodies and Agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies and Local Authorities.
Public sector bodies have a need for a technology service framework agreement, which will deliver local, regional and national technology service provides for the range of service outlined below.
If during standstill we receive a substantive challenge to our decision to award and the challenge is for a certain lot, we reserve the right, to conclude a framework agreement with successful bidders for the lot(s) that have not been challenged.
The buyer can award a call-off contract via either completion of a further completion procedure or by applying the direct award criteria to the supplier’s catalogue.
Where requested by the buyer, suppliers will provide a range of services and to deliver full technology strategic design to buyer. Services which may include but are not limited to:
— Capability analysis — identification of current business capability (as is) and that which will be needed for the future state (to be).
— Technology gap assessments — the assessment and recommendation of the right technology to plug the capability gap between the as-is and the to-be.
— Business models — identification of the correct commercial and operational models to deliver the technology strategy (insourced, outsourced or multi-sourced models).
— Architectures — identification of the correct technology architecture to deliver the technology strategy (in-house hosted, private cloud, hybrid or public cloud).
— Road-mapping — the development of technology roadmaps to co-ordinate the delivery of the technology strategy.
— IT financial management — development of an IT financial management approach to support the technology strategy, in order to manage investment and costs and obtain business benefit from any investments.
Where requested by the buyer, suppliers will provide a range of services to deliver full technology service design to buyer. Services which may include but are not limited to:
— Operational service design - working with customers and end users in order to design a service delivery model that meets the current and future business needs and demand.
— Service levels, performance design — developing service levels and KPI’s for services in scope, their measurement and reporting and how service provider(s) may work to achieve and maintain them.

Eligibility requirements: Candidates will be assessed in accordance with section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an invitation to tender (ITT) registering for access.

Award value: 2000000000