Official UK procurement notice
Assistive Technology (AT) Support Services
Authority: Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has a legal obligation to ensure that reasonable adjustments are made to accommodate the needs of those with long term or temporary impairments or disabilities. It falls to BEIS Digital to ensure that Assistive Technology products and services are made available to meet any requirements needed to use ICT/digital solutions. Such requirements are usually identified through a formal, specialist workplace assessment.
The purpose of the tender is to source specialist external resource to support our current and new Assistive Technology users.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has a legal obligation to ensure that reasonable adjustments are made to accommodate the needs of those with long term or temporary impairments or disabilities. It falls to BEIS Digital to ensure that Assistive Technology products and services are made available to meet any requirements needed to
use ICT/digital solutions. Such requirements are usually identified through a formal, specialist workplace assessment.
Key objectives for this service are;
- Capturing AT requirements for new starters
- Managing new requests for AT software / hardware
- Managing complex issues relating to AT software or AT peripherals
- Promoting digital accessibility
- Consultation and assistance working with the AT user communities
- Managing development work with software vendors used by BEIS
- Working with BEIS Digital's technical resources
- Dedicated internal customer-facing point of contact
- Analysis of use of software applications
- Working with the BEIS Digital Assurance team to ensure AT standards form part of the project approval process
- Working with the Health, Safety & Wellbeing team
We held a pre-market engagement on Friday 21st October between 11am and 12:30pm via Microsoft Teams, the presentation will be published with the ITT pack via beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 11 Oct 2022, 14:23 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2022, 15:25 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 31 Mar 2026 – …
- Authority reference
PRJ_628- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-031122- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0374b8Find a Tender
Publisher note: To attend the pre-market engagement session on Tuesday 18th October 11am-12:30pm via MS Teams, please contact Adejumoke Adetunji ([email protected]).
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/ ↗
- Submission deadline
- 2 Dec 2022, 16:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 31 Mar 2026, 23:00 BST
Timeline
3 Nov 2022 → 31 Mar 2026 · 4 dates- Notice published3 Nov 2022, 15:25 GMT
- Submission deadline2 Dec 2022, 16:00 GMT
- Next notice expected1 Mar 2023
- Bids opened205 days ago31 Mar 2026, 23:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Nov 2022- Status changed to active3 Nov 2022, 15:25 GMT
- Procurement method changed3 Nov 2022, 15:25 GMT
- Deadline published: 2 Dec 2022, 16:00 GMT3 Nov 2022, 15:25 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DateVI.3 | 18 Oct 2022 | 21 Oct 2022 | +3 d |
To attend the pre-market engagement session on Friday 21st October 11am-12:30pm via MS Teams, please contact Adejumoke Adetunji ([email protected]).
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.