Official UK procurement notice
Design and Build of the Cardiff Metropolitan University Website
Authority: Head of Procurement
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University wishes to appoint an organisation to design, build, host and maintain the University’s new web site.
We are flexible in our approach and welcome bids from suppliers that are either web designers and would build the site from an open-source CMS and provide design and hosting, or CMS suppliers that would provide the whole solution from the CMS and the design, build to hosting.
We aim to launch the new website in summer 2023 and have an estimated budget of circa 365,000.00 GBP inc. vat for the entire project.
CPV: Content management software development services · System, storage and content management software package · World wide web (www) site design services · World wide web (www) site operation host services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The University wishes to appoint a supplier to build the entire Cardiff Metropolitan…Awarded
The University wishes to appoint a supplier to build the entire Cardiff Metropolitan University website. We are seeking a partner that is as passionate about achieving our goals as we are and want to build a strong and flexible working relationship between the service provider and our in-house teams to implement the web build and content strategy together.
The current website runs on Microsoft 2013 and has been in place since 2009. The site has had numerous changes over a 10-year period, consists of over 2000 indexed pages, multiple content editors across the university who create and maintain pages on the website. The site is now outdated and needs replacing and updating.
The new website replacement project will include 3 major work streams,
1 New wireframe and design
2 CMS website build hosting and maintenance
3 Content project including a content strategy plan.
The University is looking to award to a bidder that will provide work for streams 1 and 2 with close collaboration on workstream 3.
The procurement will follow a two stage Restricted process, the first stage is pre-qualification using the Selection Questionnaire (SQ). The SQ is available on the University's etender portal Intend
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The closing date and time for return of the completed SQ is 12 noon on the 24th June 2022. It is envisaged that tender documentation will be issued to those suppliers who successfully pre-qualify (5 suppliers) week commencing 4th July 2022.
To access the SQ please register on the Intend etender site, which is free of charge and simply requires some standard contact details. As soon as login details and password are created please login. Select Tenders, Current, the project is the Design and Build of the University's Website, View Details, Express an Interest and the SQ document is in the Selection Stage tab of the project. You may then view the SQ or download. Please return a completed SQ by uploading the document to the site and selecting Submit return by the date and time.
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 75%
- cost: 25%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: 75
- cost: 25
- Price carries 25 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 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 · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Jun 2023, 10:38 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Jun 2023, 10:38 BST
- Authority reference
ITT/22/22- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-015931- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03d3dbFind a Tender
Publisher note: This is a contract award notice, not a contract opportunity. The contract has been awarded to Terminalfour. (WA Ref:132124)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminalfour Solutions LtdSMESubcontracting: Granite Digital, will be partnering with Terminalfour to deliver the design section of the project. | £380,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 015931-2023-2022/S 000-014240-1 · Terminalfour Solutions LtdSME
- Signed
- 2 May 2023
- Value
- £380,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4bids · 4 electronic · 1 from abroad | 4 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Terminalfour Solutions LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.