Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-12
Buyer: Cherwell District Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48930000 | 48931000 | 72000000 | 72100000 | 72140000
Estimated value: 70000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-06-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The requirement of the Authorities is to establish a consultancy framework agreement in which is can call off the skills and resourced of external consultants when the need arises. The Authorities may use this framework agreement where there may be areas of uncertainty or where the Authorities lack the internal capability or capacity to provide this type of resource. The use of consultancy advice and resource will be mainly for the commissioning of internal projects to ensure effective service delivery of the Authorities’ Transformation Programme. The Authorities have undertaken a substantial amount of transformation related projects in a range of different service areas. This framework agreement will provide support in the following 3 key areas and will be divided into Lots:
— Provide ICT leadership in the form of strategic and operational ICT advice and development of the internal ICT function.
— Provide advice on any changes, updates or impacts in the ICT market, including any future updated on legislative changes in the ICT industry.
— ICT project management and support including business analyst resource and specialist project managers.
— Support the ability of Cherwell — South Northamptonshire to sell services to third parties including other public sector bodies, private organisations and those in the third sector.
— Providing advice on organisational conformation with applicable HR related updated to legislation and national policy.
— Provide and develop HR software and ongoing support for the Authorities. (Organisational development, training, management software, Competency systems. etc).
The Authorities reserve the right to require the service provider to provide all or any part of these services to Contracting Authorities named or described below:
All district, county and unitary authorities in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, including current and future reiterations of. Contracting Authorities within the scope of this procurement also include the following:
— Any corporation established, or a group of individuals appointed to act together, for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial characters, and: a. financed wholly or mainly by another Contracting Authority listed in this this Specification; b. subject to management supervision by another Contracting Authority listed in this Specification; c. 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, are appointed by another Contracting Authority listed in this Specification; or d. an association of, or formed by one or more of, the Contracting Authorities listed in this Specification.
d) Graven Hill Village Development Company Ltd, Graven Hill Village Holding Company Ltd, Crown House Banbury Ltd, CSN Resources Ltd, CSN Associates Ltd.

Eligibility requirements: See published criteria.

Award value: 70000000