Official UK procurement notice
Digital Accessibility, Assistive Technology and Inclusive Design - Request for Information (RFI)
Authority: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe BBC would welcome responses to this request for information (RFI) in order to inform our thinking prior to any potential procurement exercise.
The purpose of this Request for Information is to provide the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with information from the market to identify potential providers that have the capability to support the BBC’s strategic goal of being an ‘Accessible First’ organisation.
At a high level, the BBC is interested in responses from providers that can offer services to meet one or all of the following requirements:
a) Accessibility Assessments and Remediation Strategies for the BBC’s:
b) Provision of Training and Learning Resources for Digital Accessibility, Assistive Technology and Inclusive Design
c) Provision of specialist resource and services to create digital products and tools
d) Strategy, Events, Change Management and Project management and analysis support for Accessibility and Inclusion
e) User Testing for Digital Accessibility and Inclusion
f) Provision of consulting and services to ensure marketing, communications and training are all accessible
g) Benchmarking the accessibility of BBC audience-facing and staff-facing products
Please note this invitation has been issued purely as an information seeking exercise and is not part of any formal procurement process.
CPV: Company health services · Computer audit and testing services · Computer support services · Design consultancy services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Industry specific software package · Internet services · Software testing · Software-related services · Specialist training services · World wide web (www) site design services
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single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The BBC would welcome responses to this request for information (RFI) in order to…Planned
The BBC would welcome responses to this request for information (RFI) in order to inform our thinking prior to any potential procurement exercise.
The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to provide the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) with information from the market to identify potential vendors that have the capability to support the BBC’s strategic goal of being an ‘Accessible First’ organisation.
At a high level, the BBC is interested in responses from suppliers that can offer services to meet one or all of the following requirements:
a) Accessibility Assessments and Remediation Strategies for the BBC’s:
b) Provision of Training and Learning Resources for Digital Accessibility, Assistive Technology and Inclusive Design
c) Provision of specialist resource and services to create digital products and tools
d) Strategy, Events, Change Management and Project management and analysis support for Accessibility and Inclusion
e) User Testing for Digital Accessibility and Inclusion
f) Provision of consulting and services to ensure marketing, communications and training are all accessible
g) Benchmarking the accessibility of BBC audience-facing and staff-facing products
Please note this invitation has been issued purely as an information seeking exercise and is not part of any formal procurement process. Additional information: Please register your interest in and respond to this project via the following link: bbc.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 8 Feb 2023, 12:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Feb 2023, 12:21 GMT
- Authority reference
PROC 2023 13- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-003851- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03a3dcFind a Tender
Publisher note: In the case of technology requirements, the BBC may involve its technology partner (Atos IT Solutions and Services Limited) to assist in the scoping and drafting of invitations to tender and/or the evaluation of tenders. However, the final decision as to which is the most economically advantageous (by reference to the award criteria) will be made by the BBC. The awarding authority reserves the right not to award a contract and to annul the procurement process at any stage. Tenders and all supporting documents must be priced in sterling and all payments will be made in sterling. The contract shall be subject to English law. The awarding authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender and reserves the right to accept part of a tender unless the tenderer expressly stipulates otherwise in the tender document.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://bbc.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Feb 2023 → 8 Feb 2023 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected8 Feb 2023
- Notice published8 Feb 2023, 12:21 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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