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Published 15 Oct 2021, 16:00 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Corporate Financial Services Contract 2022-2025

Official notice

Authority: South Downs National Park Authority (Public body)

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£800,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 26 Nov 2021awarded 14 Jan 2022
Awarded to Brighton & Hove City Council

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The financial services contract will cover all of the transactional and accounting functions relevant to the work of the Authority (Chief Financial Officer duties under Section 151 of the Local Government Act can be provided as an additional option) and the successful contractor will be expected to work closely with the Head of Business Services and the budget holders within SDNPA.

CPV: Financial and insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: South East · South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst
Extensions: The service provider may wish to include the provision of Chief Financial Officer support to SDNPA. The service provider may also wish to submit a bid to provide financial services to South Downs National Park Trust and to South Downs National Park Commercial Services Limited.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Quality Criteria: 60%
  • price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality Criteria: 60%
  • Price: 40%
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    The bidder must have staff who legally qualified and experienced in the specialist areas covered in the contract specification.Specifically, the bidder must have staff who are CCAB qualified and must have access to staff who are suitably qualified in audit for internal audit purposes

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
15 Oct 2021, 16:00 BST
Last source update
14 Jan 2022, 12:02 GMT
Award evaluation window
26 Nov 2021 – …
Authority reference
SD - 00000164
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-001145
Classification (CPV)
Financial and insurance services
Delivery area
South East (UKJ)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ec81 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
electronic ordering

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · one account per buying organisation's portal · reCAPTCHA on signup
Submission deadline
26 Nov 2021, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
26 Nov 2021, 13:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

26 Nov 2021 → 14 Jan 2022 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    26 Nov 2021, 12:00 GMT
  2. Bids opened
    26 Nov 2021, 13:00 GMT
  3. Notice published
    14 Jan 2022, 12:02 GMT

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    14 Jan 2022, 12:02 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £800,1001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 1latest 14 Jan 2022
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Brighton & Hove City Council£800,100 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic0——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

South Downs National Park Authority

Contracting authorityPublic bodyNational Park AuthorityEnvironmental protection South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst, South East, GU29 9DHContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria