Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-03
Buyer: Geant Limited
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2017-01-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: GÉANT's Trusted Introducer (TI) service (https://trusted-introducer.org ) offers a listing, accreditation and certification scheme for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) in and around Europe. Trusted Introducer forms part of the TF-CSIRT portfolio (https://tf-csirt.org ). The current contract for the Trusted Introducer service will expire on 31.8.2017. In compliance with the applicable public procurement regulations, GÉANT is issuing this Call for Proposals to run the Trusted Introducer Service from 1.9.2017.
GÉANT's Trusted Introducer (TI) service (https://trusted-introducer.org ) offers a listing, accreditation and certification scheme for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) in and around Europe. Trusted Introducer forms part of the TF-CSIRT portfolio (https://tf-csirt.org ). The TI service currently supports more than 250 CSIRTS from the research and education, commercial, government and military sectors in countries in and around Europe. The service currently divides teams into 3 categories:
— Listed, which provides basic information about the team itself as well as shows endorsement of the team by the TI community;
— Accredited, which ensures a defined level of best practices and acceptance of the established TI policies for such teams;
— Certified, if they have been accredited before and prove a confirmed level of maturity as defined by the TI framework.
GÉANT is the contracting authority for this procurement, acting on behalf of a number of CSIRTs within Europe and, in some limited scenarios, worldwide. The policy for accepting teams in to Trusted Introducer is described at: https://tf-csirt.org/membership/geographical-regions/
Participants will be advised if this is necessary during the procurement. Parent company and/or other guarantees of performance and financial stability may be required by GEANT Ltd or proposed by participants if considered appropriate.
No specific legal form is required but if a contract is awarded to a consortium, GEANT Ltd may require the consortium to form a separate legal entity before entering into any Contract.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Candidates' personal situation will be assessed on the basis of information provided in response to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) or other tender documentation as referred to within this notice. This procurement will be managed electronically via GEANT's eProcurement platform where all tender documents can be found. To participate in this procurement, participants must first be registered on www.geant-procurement.net
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS numbers (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at www.geant-procurement.net
Once you have registered at www.geant-procurement.net a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Candidates' economic and financial capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the ITT or other tender documentation as referred to within this notice. The ITT can be accessed at www.geant-procurement.net using the instructions detailed in III.2.1).
GEANT Ltd will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which shall be for a minimum of 10-calendar days provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) 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).

Eligibility requirements: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Candidates' personal situation will be assessed on the basis of information provided in response to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) or other tender documentation as referred to within this notice. This procurement will be managed electronically via GEANT's eProcurement platform where all tender documents can be found. To participate in this procurement, participants must first be registered on www.geant-procurement.net Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS numbers (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at www.geant-procurement.net Once you have registered at www.geant-procurement.net a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement. Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Candidates' economic and financial capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the ITT or other tender documentation as referred to within this notice. The ITT can be accessed at www.geant-procurement.net using the instructions detailed in III.2.1). Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Candidates' economic and financial capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the ITT or other tender documentation as referred to within this notice. The ITT can be accessed at www.geant-procurement.net using the instructions detailed in III.2.1).
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Candidates' economic and financial capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the ITT or other tender documentation as referred to within this notice. The ITT can be accessed at www.geant-procurement.net using the instructions detailed in III.2.1).