Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-06-09
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72212180 | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72268000: Software supply services
Estimated value: 1000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-07-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
An electronic forensic medical examination information system to support the healthcare and forensic examination of people who have experienced rape, sexual assault or child sexual abuse.
A contract for the provision of a software service to support the sexual offences against adults national form and the child protection paediatric examination for people who have experienced rape, sexual assault or child sexual abuse. It is anticipated by the authority that the contractor will be providing ‘Commercial Off The Shelf’ (COTS) software with some development and configuration. The contractor will implement the application nationally with the support of NSS, support the service, provide necessary training. An option to securely host the system in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 and UK Data Protection Act 2018 may be included by contractors.
Important note: There is a hard deadline for system ‘go live’ of 1 April 2021. Contractors must ensure they detail in their tender response, how this hard deadline will be achieved. Please refer to the ITT document for further information.
The contract may be extended for a further 2 + 2 + 1 years at the sole discretion of NSS, subject to satisfactory performance of the supplier.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Suppliers are required to provide statement of accounts or extracts relating to their business for the previous 2 years.
Where any are risks identified by the authority as part of the due diligence carried out on the above information the authority may require bidders to provide additional information to demonstrate financial standing. Additional information can include but not be limited to:
Bidders who cannot provide suitable evidence of a secure financial standing may be excluded from the procurement.
The turnover of the economic operator in respect of its most recent two full financial years must have been equal to or more than GBP 1 000 000.
[This section refers to Section B of Part IV of the ESPD and covers questions 4B.2 – 4B.6.1 of the ESPD (Scotland) and responses will be assessed on a pass/fail basis:
4B1.2 — Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of GBP 1.0 million for the last 2 years.
4B.2.2 — Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of GBP 1.0 million in the business area covered by the contract for the last 2 years.
4B.3 — Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, Bidders will require to state the date on which they were set up or started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 1000000