Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-09-28
Buyer: Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service
Country: UK
Region: Northern Ireland
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72240000 | 72250000: System and support services
Estimated value: 10500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-10-28
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The scope of this procurement is for a Contractor to undertake the support and maintenance of the Oracle line of business systems and referenced 3rd party applications used by NICTS. The Contractor must proactively manage the Oracle databases and applications.
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.. This contract will not be subdivided into lots. The reason for this is the client requires a. single point of contact and a primary contractor to manage the installation and integration of technologies. The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from £7,000,000 to. £10,500,000. This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which. may result from future operational requirements.. The pricing strategy applied and the setting of cost/profit margins are a commercial. decision for economic operators when submitting a bid for this competition. In addition, neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any. guarantee as to the level of business under this contract.
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.


Award value: 10500000