Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-01-28
Buyer: Renfrewshire Council
Country: UK
Region: Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72200000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72266000: Software consultancy services
Estimated value: 400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-02-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Renfrewshire Council has decided to enter into a Secure Productive Enterprise (SPE) Agreement with Microsoft with an expectation of the contract being in place by 01.4.2017. The Agreement will include all current corporate users — approximately 4 200. As well as all of the products included within the SPE the agreement with Microsoft will cover SQL licensing and Project/Visio licensing. The transformation of current services to the SPE is expected to take between 1 and 2 years. The Council would look to the support partner to help define a plan that allows us to meet this timeframe.
Renfrewshire Council has decided to enter into a Secure Productive Enterprise (SPE) Agreement with Microsoft with an expectation of the contract being in place by 01.4.2017. The Agreement will include all current corporate users — approximately 4 200. As well as all of the products included within the SPE the agreement with Microsoft will cover SQL licensing and Project/Visio licensing.
The Business Case that was collated to inform the Council decision is predicated on the retiral of a range of products that are currently in use prior to the expiry date of existing contracts.
Given the scale of this work the Council has decided to appoint an Implementation Support Partner to guide and support the Council through this transition.
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 and any of the situations referred to in regulation 8 and 9 of the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016.
Due to the limitation of characters within the system tenderers must refer to the document reference as "Contract Notice" Technical and Professional Ability contained within the Invitation to tender (Project 7550) which is saved under folder reference "Contract Notice Additional Information" within the supplier attachment area.
Professional indemnity- minimum 250 000 GBP, each and every claim (however, will accept cover in the aggregate so long as at least one automatic annual reinstatement of this sum is permitted in each policy year).
Motor — please request a valid MV certificate in the company name, or the standard company letter we require where there is no fleet and employees are using their own vehicles to fulfil the contract.
Please note tenderers are required to have a minimum Dun and Bradstreet Failure Score of 20, where this criteria is not met, tenderers should provide detail why and supporting evidence in the form of company accounts for the previous financial year.
Due to the limitation of characters within the system tenderers must refer to the document reference as ‘Contract Notice’ Technical and Professional Ability contained within the Invitation to tender (Project 7550) which is saved under folder reference ‘Contract Notice Additional Information’ within the supplier attachment area.
Special conditions are detailed within the ‘Special Conditions’ document contained within the supplier attachment area of PCST Invitation to tender (Project 7550).
Please refer to the 3 word documents uploaded within the PCS-T System supplier attachment area (Project 7550):
Tenderers are required to submit S7 Declaration as part of their tender submission. The document is attached within the PCS-T ITT (Project 7550), commercial envelope.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is RC-RC-224-17. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is RC_RC_224_17. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

Eligibility requirements: Due to the limitation of characters within the system tenderers must refer to the document reference as "Contract Notice" Technical and Professional Ability contained within the Invitation to tender (Project 7550) which is saved under folder reference "Contract Notice Additional Information" within the supplier attachment area.

Award value: 400000