Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-08
Buyer: Jisc Services Limited
Country: UK
Region: Oxfordshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 32412110 | 72400000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Jisc Services Ltd (JSL) wishes to establish a Multi-Supplier framework agreement to supply and support Web Filtering and Monitoring solutions from a number of different service providers.
The framework agreement envisaged is for the supply and support of a broad range of Web Filtering and Monitoring solutions to cover the wide and varied requirements within the education and research sector.
A web monitoring and filtering solution where the architecture is exclusively cloud based i.e. no local appliances are required although an agent could be utilised.
A web monitoring and filtering solution where the architecture is exclusively local appliance based I.E. no cloud based elements although remote updates could be utilised.
A web monitoring and filtering solution that can utilise both local appliance and cloud based architecture. This includes solutions that can start with either a cloud or local appliance solution and progress to a hybrid status.
Jisc Services Ltd intends to award contracts to up to a maximum of 12 suppliers on this framework agreement. There will be a maximum of 4 suppliers on each of the 3 Lots.
This is to support forming a pool of solutions that can be selected from, as per each individual organisation's requirements.
The scope of the framework covers purchases by Jisc, JSL, Higher Education institutions, Further Education and Specialist Colleges and Research Council establishments in the UK, and by any other bodies whose core purpose is the support or advancement of further or higher education or of research.
Many of the above bodies are members of higher and further education purchasing consortia. These are independent organisations that provide a wide range of collaborative purchase agreements to their member institutions through consensus and the common desire to maximise their purchasing power in the market place. Any member of one of these consortia will be eligible to purchase from this Service by virtue of its membership, as will members of any other similar purchasing consortium in higher or further education that might be formed during the lifetime of the Service.
The Service is also available for use by any National Research and Education Network (NREN) and the community it serves where the NREN has either a direct connection to Janet or the NREN is a member at any time during the period of this framework of the consortium that operates GÉANT. GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe's NRENs. A list of members of the GÉANT consortium (GÉANT Partners) may be found at the URL below. HEAnet, the NREN of the Republic of Ireland, is connected both to Janet and is a member of the GÉANT consortium.
The framework agreement will be for an initial period of 2 years with the possibility of an extension for a further 2 years subject to review, with an overall period of up to 4 years.
Grounds for mandatory rejection as set out in Regulation 57(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015:
(a) conspiracy within the meaning of section 1 or 1A of the Criminal Law Act 1977 or article 9 or 9A of the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 where that conspiracy relates to participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA on the fight against organised crime (c);
(b) corruption within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889(d) or section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906(e) where the offence relates to active corruption;
(d) fraud, where the offence relates to fraud affecting the European Communities' financial interests as defined by Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the financial interests of the European

Eligibility requirements: Grounds for mandatory rejection as set out in Regulation 57(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015: (a) conspiracy within the meaning of section 1 or 1A of the Criminal Law Act 1977 or article 9 or 9A of the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 where that conspiracy relates to participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA on the fight against organised crime (c); (b) corruption within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889(d) or section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906(e) where the offence relates to active corruption; (c) the offence of bribery, where the offence relates to active corruption; (d) fraud, where the offence relates to fraud affecting the European Communities' financial interests as defined by Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities, within the meaning of— (i) the offence of cheating the Revenue; (ii) the offence of conspiracy to defraud; (iii) fraud or theft within the meaning of the Theft Act 1968, the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, the Theft Act 1978 or the Theft (Northern Ireland) Order 1978; (iv) fraudulent trading within the meaning of section 458 of the Companies Act 1985, article 451 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or section 993 of the Companies Act 2006; (v) fraudulent evasion within the meaning of section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 or section 72 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994; (vi) an offence in connection with taxation in the European Union within the meaning of section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993; (vii) destroying, defacing or concealing of documents or procuring the execution of a valuable security within the meaning of section 20 of the Theft Act 1968 or section 19 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969; (viii) fraud within the meaning of section 2, 3 or 4 of the Fraud Act 2006; or (ix) making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply articles for use in frauds within the meaning of section 7 of the Fraud Act 2006; (e) money laundering within the meaning of section 340(11) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; (f) any offence listed- (i) in section 41 of the Counter Terrorism Act 2008(a);or (ii) in Schedule 2 to that Act where the court has determined that there is a terrorist connection; (g) any offence under sections 44 to 46 of the Serious Crime Act 2007(b) which relates to an offence covered by subparagraph (f); (h) money laundering within the meaning of sections 340(110 and 415 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002(c); (i) an offence in connection with the proceeds of criminal conduct within the meaning of section 93A, 93B or 93C of the Criminal Justice Act 1988(d) or article 45, 46 or 47 of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(e); (j) an offence under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004(f); (k) an offence under section 59A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003(g); (l) an offence under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009(h); (m) an offence in connection with the proceeds of drug trafficking within the meaning of section 49, 50 or 51 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994(i); or (n) any other offence within the meaning of Article 57(1) of the Public Contracts Directive— (i) as defined by the law of any jurisdiction outside England and Wales and Northern Ireland; or (ii) created, after the day on which these Regulations were made, in the law of England and Wales or Northern Ireland Grounds for discretionary rejection as set out in regulation 57(8) of the Public Contracts Regulations: (a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, whose affairs are being administered by the court, who has entered into an arrangement with creditors, who has suspended business activities or who is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding-up or administration by the court or for an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws or regulations; (c) has been convicted by a judgement which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate; (e) where a conflict of interest within the meaning of regulation 24 cannot be effectively remedied by other, less intrusive, measures; (f) where a distortion of competition from the prior involvement of the economic operator in the preparation of the procurement procedure, as referred to in regulation 41, cannot be remedied by other, less intrusive, measures; (g) where the economic operator has shown significant or persistent deficiencies in the performance of a substantive requirement under a prior public contract, a prior contract with a contracting entity, or a prior concession contract, which led to early termination of that prior contract, damages or other comparable sanctions; (h) where the economic operator has (i). undertaken to: (aa) unduly influence the decision-making process of the contracting authority, or (bb) obtain confidential information that may confer upon it undue advantages in the procurement procedure; or (ii) negligently provided misleading information that may have a material influence on decisions concerning exclusion, selection or award: The supplier shall provide evidence of financial and economic standing, as specified in Article 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
The supplier shall provide evidence of financial and economic standing, as specified in Article 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.