Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-16
Buyer: East Lothian Housing Association Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 600000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-04-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
ELHA wishes to appoint a single supplier to provide it with Managed IT Services (which is likely to include the provision of ICT infrastructure) that meet its Technical Statement of Requirements set out in the contract documents.
The initial contract period will be 48 months with the option to extend for up to 3 further 12 month periods. Any extension of the contract will be at the discretion of ELHA.
Economic operators maybe excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Under the ESPD, Question Reference Statement for 4C.1 economic operators shall be required to insert suitable responses to Question 4C.1.2 and 4C.A — 4C.F below in order to demonstrate they have the required standards of technical and professional ability.
4C.1.2 — The Bidder shall be required to provide relevant examples of supplies and/or services carried out during the last 3 years as specified in the Contract Notice: (Examples from both public and/or private sector customers and clients may be provided) 15%
4C.A — The Bidder shall be required to provide details of its experience in assisting an organisation with the migration/offboarding of another supplier's managed service provision to its service. In particular, how did it ensure that this migration has been low risk and undertaken through a controlled approach? 10%
4C.B — The Bidder shall be required to provide details of its experience in successfully building long term relationships with clients to support and develop the core infrastructure to deliver IT services? 15%
4C.C — The Bidder shall be required to provide details of its experience in how, in previous or existing contracts, it has approached the management of the mobilisation and transition arrangements and ensured continuity of IT service delivery during the transition period, including the key operational issues that had to be addressed; how they were resolved and its approach to the effective communication to and engagement with all affected staff and service users? 20%
4C.D — The Bidder shall be required to provide details of how it has previous approached project management to ensure the key milestone dates are achieved. This should include details of its risk management techniques and the steps it took to mitigate risks which may cause slippage including those which may be out of its control, e.g. failure of your supply chain to deliver on-time. 20%
4C.E — The Bidder shall be required to provide details of how it has previously approach the application of its quality assurance standards to its proposed solutions. 10%
4C.F — The Bidder shall be required to provide details of its approach it has taken on previous or existing contracts to innovate and deliver continuous improvement throughout the life of the contract. This includes the service provision and business improvement approach with year on year cost improvements you have made to deliver value for money. 10%
The evaluation team will score the Tenderer's responses to each of these questions on a scale of 0 to 5 by reference to the following scoring guide:
5 Exceptional. Demonstrates strengths, no errors, weaknesses or omissions and exceeds expectations in some or all respects.
2 Poor. The response is deficient in certain areas where the details of relevant response require the reviewer to make certain assumptions.


Award value: 600000