Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-06
Buyer: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 72222100: Information systems strategic review services | 72222300: Information technology services | 72224100: Systems implementation planning services | 72224200: Systems quality assurance planning services
Estimated value: 4500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Design and Engineering is the Division of the BBC responsible for delivering digital experiences to the audience. Part of the digital portfolio includes a range of audience facing native (iOS and Android) mobile and hybrid applications.
Design and Engineering is seeking to establish a short list of preferred suppliers for the provision of mobile development services, and associated services, to support their engineering efforts. The benefits sought in going to market are:
— Driving development of modular, functional, capabilities by augmenting and extending the Mobile Application Platform and in turn, greater utility and reuse across the BBC mobile technology estate.
Augmentation of BBC teams (either existing teams or enabling parallel work-streams) in order to uplift velocity (i.e. deliverables based) by:
The BBC intends to award between 4 and 7 Framework Agreements following the procurement process, in accordance with our evaluation methodology at Section B, paragraph 3 of the ITT Documentation.
This Framework Agreement shall commence on the 28.10.2016 and shall continue for a period of 2 (two) years. For the avoidance of doubt, the Initial Term shall expire on 27.10.2018. The BBC may extend the Initial Term for up to 2 (two) separate periods of up to 12 (twelve) months per period commencing on expiry of the Initial Term and the first extension respectively.
The estimated value of the framework agreement is approximately 1 000 000 GBP per annum, however the initial term may be slightly less depending on utilisation and may become more as the framework succeeds.
Where there is more than one economic operator, the BBC reserves the right to require a grouping of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
In the case of technology requirements, the BBC may involve its technology partner (Atos IT Solutions and Services Limited) to assist in the scoping and drafting of invitations to tender and/or the evaluation of tenders. However, the final decision as to which is the most economically advantageous (by reference to the award criteria) will be made by the BBC. The awarding authority reserves the right not to award a contract and to annul the procurement process at any stage. Tenders and all supporting documents must be priced in sterling and all payments will be made in sterling. The contract shall be subject to English law. The awarding authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender and reserves the right to accept part of a tender unless the tenderer expressly stipulates otherwise in the tender document.

Eligibility requirements: Where there is more than one economic operator, the BBC reserves the right to require a grouping of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.

Award value: 4500000