Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-07-03
Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48440000 | 48441000 | 48812000: Financial information systems | 66000000 | 66133000

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS), as the Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of Financial Analysis and Monitoring Services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies.
The objective of the procurement is to create an agreement that the Public Sector can use to access the following services — Services used to assess and monitor the financial strength and the credit worthiness of companies and of citizens.
It is currently envisaged that this will be in the form of a multi-supplier, multi-lot framework but this will be determined as a result of the market engagement.
CCS welcomes input from market experts or specialists as to the structure, nature and principles of the proposed commercial vehicle.
Please see the additional information section which sets out how you can get involved and find out more.
The objective of the procurement is to create an agreement that the Public Sector can use to access the following services — Services used to assess and monitor the financial strength and the credit worthiness of companies and of citizens.
Please email financial-analysis@crowncommercial.gov.uk for further information and / or information about market engagement.
This Prior Information Notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the Financial Analysis and Monitoring Services market — Those who perform financial (credit) checks, ratings, analysis and monitoring on companies and citizens.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) intends to hold market engagement sessions during Summer 2018 with suppliers interested in potentially bidding for the resulting framework contract.
If you are interested in attending a market engagement session please express your interest by emailing Jessie Crabtree at financial-analysis@crowncommercial.gov.uk no later than midday on Friday 1.7.2018. Further details will be provided to you.
CCS will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk.
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS pipeline page http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/procurement-pipeline for updates and monitor Tenders Electronic Daily for the publication of the OJEU contract notice.
With reference to II.3.6 — the lotting structure of this will be determined as a result of the market engagement.
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