Public procurement notice: Dynamic Purchasing System
Published: 2020-12-04
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48200000 | 48730000: Security software package | 48731000: File-security software package | 48732000: Data-security software package | 48800000
Submission deadline: 2023-02-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The authority is extending its collaborative digital technology services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for a further 24 months until the 10 February 2023.
The DPS will remain open for new suppliers to apply to join. Existing suppliers that have already successfully joined the DPS do not need to re-apply. Full details can be found on the previous contract notice issued on 19 December 2018, see below:
Full details of the requirements for the lots can be found on the previous contract notice which was issued on 19 of December 2018, details as follows:
This DPS may be further extended in line with Public Contract Scotland Regulations 2015 with a formal extension notice published from this site.
Economics operators may be excluded from this DPS if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulations 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) 2015.
Full details of the requirements for the lots can be found on the previous Contract Notice which was issued on 19 of December 2018, details as follows:
This DPS may be further extended in line with Public Contract Scotland Regulations 2015 with a formal extension notice published from this site.
Economic operators may be excluded from this DPS if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Full details of the requirements for the Lots can be found on the previous contract notice which was issued on 19 of December 2018, details as follows:
This contract is subject to renewal: this DPS may be further extended in line with Public Contract Scotland Regulations 2015 with a formal extension notice published from this site.
Economic operators may be excluded from this DPS if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Potential participants from the UK will be required to provide their tax reference numbers: i.e. Value Added Tax registration number, PAYE collection reference and corporation tax or self-assessment reference, as applicable. Please enter this number in section 2A question 2A.2 and 3 of the ESPD.
Overseas and non-UK potential participants will be required to submit a certificate of tax compliance obtained from the country in which they are a resident for tax purposes.
The authority will have the right to request evidence that entry criteria is still valid at any point during the life of the Dynamic Purchasing System with evidence to be provided via an updated ESPD to the authority within 5 working days of request being issued.

Eligibility requirements: Potential participants from the UK will be required to provide their tax reference numbers: i.e. Value Added Tax registration number, PAYE collection reference and corporation tax or self-assessment reference, as applicable. Please enter this number in section 2A question 2A.2 and 3 of the ESPD. Overseas and non-UK potential participants will be required to submit a certificate of tax compliance obtained from the country in which they are a resident for tax purposes. The authority will have the right to request evidence that entry criteria is still valid at any point during the life of the Dynamic Purchasing System with evidence to be provided via an updated ESPD to the authority within 5 working days of request being issued. It is a requirement of this DPS that suppliers hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance as a minimum indicated below; Public liability insurance of minimum GBP 1 million. Employers liability insurance of minimum GBP 5 million. Professional indemnity insurance of minimum GBP 1 million. The Dynamic Purchasing System will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross- border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, Councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, all NHS Scotland, The Integrated Joint Boards established further to the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act 2014, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Student Loans Company Ltd, the Forestry Commission, the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, the Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within the meaning of section 6 of the further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing. In addition to the contracting authorities listed, the framework agreement will be available to charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register and voluntary organisations entered on the membership database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.