Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2017-06-24
Buyer: Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72212983 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72222300: Information technology services | 72223000: Information technology requirements review services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services

Technical requirements: The next critical milestones involve the development of: — Enhanced capability for the EU Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) ; — Refinement of the key controls to the claims process; — Advance payments for October 2017; — Processing 95 of Basic Payment Scheme payments to farmers by December 2017; and — Assisting IT delivery of an EU mandated 50 percent uptake target for DAERA's Geo-spatial Aid Application (GSAA).
A transparency notice to alert economic operators of its plan to modify this contract in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 was published in March 2017. The scope of this contract remains true to the original procurement and the services required are as specified. The modification of the contract is the final permissible up to a ceiling of 2 400 000 GBP if budgets allow.
The Public Contract Regulations 2015 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).
The next critical milestones involve the development of: enhanced capability for the EU Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) refinement of the key controls to the claims process;. Advance payments for October 2017; Processing 95 of Basic Payment Scheme payments to farmers by December 2017; And assisting IT delivery of an EU mandated 50 percent uptake target for DAERA's Geo-Spatial Aid Application (GSAA). This is coupled with increasingly complicated requirements for new services. Additionally the Department needs to integrate the Northern Ireland Food and Animal Information System (NIFAIS) and the Environmental Marine Fisheries Group (EMFG) systems 70 into the enterprise DAERA environment. Many of these systems will require significant upgrading. Extend the provision of current ICT services support for continuity of services and sufficient technical handover to reduce the risk of disruption and delivery failure in the first phase of the new ICT support contract.
Central Procurement Directorate on. behalf of DAERA has modified a contract in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The scope of this contract remains true to the original procurement and the services required are as specified. The Modification is the final permissible up to a ceiling of 2 400 000 GBP if budgets allow.
The regulations allow for a contract to be modified without a new procurement procedure under the following circumstances which are relevant to the DAERA requirement; for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor that have become necessary and were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor— (I) cannot be made for economic or technical reasons such as requirements of interchangeability or interoperability with existing equipment, services or installations procured under the initial procurement, and (ii) would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority provided that any increase in price does not exceed 50 per cent of the value of the original contract;


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