Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-08
Buyer: Queen's University Belfast
Country: UK
Region: Belfast
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48517000 | 71620000 | 72316000: Data analysis services
Estimated value: 300000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-12-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Queen's University Belfast seeks to procure a software system to facilitate student evaluation of teaching and modules via both paper and online surveys, the collation of responses and the provision of reports and data analysis.
This contract shall be for an initial period of 3 years, with options by the University to extend by up to a further 5 years. In addition, this contract further includes options to extend support and licensing for a maximum period of 10 years from the date of contract commencement.
The volumes of licences required and the volume of questionnaires to be analysed provided as stated within the tender documentation are an estimate of the current requirements only and may be greater or less that those stated.
This contract includes the option to extend beyond the initial 3 year period by up to a further 5 years. In addition, the contract includes the option to extend ongoing support and licensing for a maximum period of 10 years from the date of contract commencement.
If the Economic Operator or Group of Economic Operators wishes to rely on the capacity of Other Entities in terms of economic and financial standing and/or technical and professional ability, then Other Entities must each complete the relevant Sections of the Tender Documentation.
The Economic Operator or Group of Economic Operators will prove to the University that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary from those Other Entities. To evidence this, the Economic Operator or Group of Economic Operators will be required to produce a commitment from those Entities to that effect.
The University may require that certain critical tasks be performed directly by the Economic Operator or in the case of a Group of Economic Operators by a member of that Group.
The University's particular requirements will be set out in the tender documentation but it should be noted that the University reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
The contract shall be performed in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of Contract as contained within the Tender Documentation.
In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Tender Documentation.
This authority will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to Tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Public Contract Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

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