Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-01-07
Buyer: National Procurement Service (Welsh Government)
Country: UK
Region: WALES
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48311100 | 48613000 | 63121000 | 63121100 | 64216200

Technical requirements: The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Category team in the National Procurement Service (NPS) are developing a strategy to obtain services for the Digitisation, Storage and Destruction of Records and the Secure Disposal, Recycling and Reuse of ICT Assets. The aim for this procurement will be to obtain services from Social enterprises as defined in Regulation 20 of the Public Procurement Regulations 2015.
To meet these aims the NPS may choose to reserve participation in the tender for this framework wholly or in part; to those businesses for part or all of the whose main aim is integration of disabled and disadvantaged persons, or provide for the contract to be performed in this context provided that at last 30 % of workers are disabled or disadvantaged.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=33070
Suppliers on this lot will be expected to provide all the services listed either as a single end to end service or as individual services as per Customer requirements. The main services that are being considered for this lot are as follows:
Suppliers on this lot will be expected to provide all the services listed either as a single end to end service or as individual services as per Customer requirements. The main services that we are considering for this lot are as follows:
National Procurement Service will engage with suppliers to establish the most appropriate commercial models and contracting terms to deliver best value.
In order to do this, market engagement and consultation will take place via a supplier workshop on Wednesday the 19.1.2015 in Newtown, Powys. The purpose of this will be to discuss our plans for the procurement and to give potential bidders the opportunity to engage with the process in advance of us issuing the invitation to tender. The exact format and timing of the event will be dependant on the level of interest, further information will be sent to organisations who express an interest in this notice.
Record your interest in the Notice via the ‘Further Information’ tab, ‘Additional Notice Options’. By recording your interest you will be automatically sent information including invites to Supplier Days, clarifications and deadline date changes etc. Please note that recording your interest does not automatically enter you into the tender process for this notice.
National Procurement Service does not guarantee that a call for competition will definitely take place as a result of this Prior Information Notice. National Procurement Service may change both the scope and the structure of this framework procurement as a result of market and customer engagement
The commitment to deliver ‘community benefit’ outcomes from our procurement activity is designed to ensure that wider social and economic issues are taken into account when spending public money. The intention is to achieve the very best value for money in the widest sense.
Full details, including how to formally register and express an interest in tendering will be included in the OJEU Contract Notice.