Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-20
Buyer: Department of Finance
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 73220000 | 79400000 | 79410000
Estimated value: 50000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-07-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Framework Agreement for the provision of Multi Specialism professional services Framework will complement the current in-house resources and will be used to provide a single route to access the provision of strategic, high level, broad based and innovative advice across a wide range of disciplines. Longer term high value, complex and multidisciplinary contracts (typically more than 1 month) that will include more than 1 consultancy specialism to assure the successful delivery of significant Contracting Authority projects and or programmes. There are 4 main elements within the scope of the Framework: 1. Context: Transformational Projects 2. Role: Client-side Advisory Services 3. Role: Client Side Programme Delivery 4. Nature: Multi-Disciplinary Deployment of Resources. The Public Sector Shared Services Programme OBC Support Assignment will be used as a path finder to establish the Collaborative Framework Agreement which other bodies can use to call off their requirements.
All bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks may avail of this Framework Agreement for their external Multi Specialism professional services requirements.
The Framework Agreement for the provision of Multi Specialism professional services Framework will complement the current in-house resources and will be used to provide a single route to access the provision of strategic, high level, broad based and innovative advice across a wide range of disciplines. Longer term high value, complex and multidisciplinary contracts (typically more than 1 month) that will include more than one consultancy specialism to assure the successful delivery of significant Contracting Authority projects and or programmes. There are 4 main elements within the scope of the Framework: 1. Context: Transformational Projects 2. Role: Client-side Advisory Services 3. Role: Client Side Programme Delivery 4. Nature: Multi-Disciplinary Deployment of Resources. The Public Sector Shared Services Programme OBC Support Assignment will be used as a path finder to establish the Collaborative Framework Agreement which other bodies can use to call off their requirements.
All bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks may avail of this Framework Agreement for their external Multi Specialism professional services requirements.
Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor's performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate. The Authority expressly reserves the rights: (I). not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;. (II). to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition;. (III). to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the services covered by this notice; and. (IV). to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. The Framework Agreement is being let by Central Procurement Directorate on behalf of any public sector organisations requiring services in Northern Ireland. All bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks may avail of this Framework Agreement for their external Multi Specialism professional services requirements. Note: This is not a multi-lot Framework, the Lots have been established for evaluation purposes only to establish the Framework and also the Public Sector Shared Services Programme OBC Support Assignment. All secondary competitions will be carried out with the Contractors appointed to Lot 1. Note: IV.1.3) Information about a Framework Agreement or a Dynamic Purchasing System requires a number to be inserted. Please note that this number is only an indication as all tenderers who achieve a combined Quality/Cost score of 60 % or higher will be awarded a place on the Framework Agreement.
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 50000000