Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-13
Buyer: The Skills Development Scotland Co. Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72212224 | 72400000 | 72413000: Website design services
Submission deadline: 2019-10-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Skills Development Scotland are conducting this tender process to establish a multi lot framework agreement for the provision of a range of web development services. The framework will be split into three (3) separate lots as follows:
The maximum value of call-off contracts placed under the framework agreement over the maximum 4 year term is 3 725 000 GBP.
It is envisaged that the services included under this lot shall include but not be limited to: user experience, user centered design, information architecture, interaction design, usability,
 usability testing, accessibility, web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) compliance, human-computer interaction, web design, illustrations, design prototyping, user interface design, content strategy and design (including video), agile practice.
SDS may from time to time have requirements for a supplier to work on site in their offices at Lomond House, George Square, Glasgow to deliver the services required under a call-off contract. Digital services have a well-established in-house development team and, in our experience, suppliers working onsite with the teams increases collaboration, idea generation and problem solving. For some projects a large number of stakeholders from within the business are involved. The supplier being based on site helps with getting a better understanding of the requirements first hand being part of these scoping/briefing meetings. This further aids teamworking when the internal digital services and supplier team are working on the project as a tight knit team.
SDS shall have the option to extend this framework agreement by up to twelve (12) months on 2 separate occasions (2 + 1 + 1), maximum duration of four (4) years.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
It is anticipated that services under this lot shall include but not be limited to: (Bootstrap and Semantic — UI), technical support, Azure DevOps, prototype development, emerging technologies (data — analysis and integration, voice technologies, chatbots, AI, etc.), testing (automation, regression, testing standards), development using agile principles.
SDS may from time to time have requirements for a supplier to work on site in their offices at Lomond House, George Square, Glasgow to deliver the services required under a call-off contract. Digital Services have a well-established in-house development team and, in our experience, suppliers working onsite with the teams increases collaboration, idea generation and problem solving. For some projects a large number of stakeholders from within the business are involved. The supplier being based on site helps with getting a better understanding of the requirements first hand being part of these scoping/briefing meetings. This further aids team working when the internal Digital Services and supplier team are working on the project as a tight knit team.
SDS shall have the option to extend this framework agreement by up to twelve (12) months on 2 separate occasions (2 + 1 + 1), maximum duration four (4) years.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
It is anticipated that services under this lot shall include but not be limited to: (Semantic — UI), technical support, prototype development, emerging technologies (data — analysis and integration, voice technologies, chatbots, AI, etc), testing (automation, regression, testing standards), development using agile principles.
SDS may from time to time have requirements for a supplier to work on site in their offices at Lomond House, George Square, Glasgow to deliver the services required under a call-off contract. Digital Services have a well-established in-house development team and, in our experience, suppliers working onsite with the teams increases collaboration, idea generation and problem solving. For some projects a large number of stakeholders from within the business are involved. The supplier being based on site helps with getting a better understanding of the requirements first hand being part of these scoping/briefing meetings. This further aids team working when the internal digital services and supplier team are working on the project as a tight knit team.
SDS shall have the option to extend this framework agreement by up to twelve (12) months on 2 separate occasions, (2 + 1 + 1), maximum duration four (4) years.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
This is the first time SDS have sought to establish a framework agreement for these services, provided it is successful and the requirement still exists for the services, it is envisaged that a new procurement process would take place to have in place a new agreement in anticipation for this agreement expiring.

Eligibility requirements: Not applicable.