Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-10-30
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 42924730 | 42924740 | 45452000 | 90690000 | 90900000
Estimated value: 100000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a pan government collaborative dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for the provision of building cleaning services to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue, education and devolved administrations.
The initial position, subject to engagement, is to use postcode delivery radius and DPS categories of:
The initial position, subject to engagement is to create a dynamic purchasing system that allows buyers to procure internal and external building cleaning services to their preferred/required standard.
The lot structure of this framework will be determined as a result of the engagement process, and will be confirmed within the contract notice, as will the estimated value of the agreement.
This prior information notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the building cleaning services market.
Crown Commercial Service invites suggestions and feedback on, service lines or processes detailed in the lot from the market including industry experts, specialists, buyers and suppliers.
To participate in market engagement please email cleaning@crowncommercial.gov.uk with any suggestions and/or feedback in your email, along with the following details:
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (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.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS pipeline page http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/procurement-pipeline for updates and monitor tenders electronic daily for the publication of the OJEU contract notice.
The cyber essentials scheme is mandatory for central government contracts which involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The Government is taking steps to further reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the cyber essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet.
To participate in the procurement for the building cleaning services DPS, bidders will be required to demonstrate that they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by cyber essentials [Plus] for the services under and in connection with the procurement.
The bidder may be awarded a framework contract but shall not enter into any call-off contracts with buyers until they are able to demonstrate to CCS that they meet the technical requirements prescribed by the cyber essentials [Plus] scheme for services under and in connection with this procurement.
The service that arise from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of official. It will be a condition of this contract that this material must be protected. Baseline protection controls are defined in ISO27001:2013 and further defined by the Security Policy Framework https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-security.


Award value: 100000000