Official UK procurement notice
Digital Accessibility Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe BBC has Awarded a Framework Agreement to two suppliers.
The Framework Agreement is effective from 13th January 2025 and will be effective for 4 years. The Framework Agreement will not be extended.
Suppliers will be providing a range of services including but not limited to Accessibility Training and Learning, Accessibility Consultancy, Accessibility and Inclusive Design reviews against industry and BBC accessibility guidelines and standards as well as support with non W3C complaint technologies.
The estimated spend range over the 4 year term is between £400,000 to £600,000
The spend ranges are not committed spend ranges, and are therefore "only an
estimation" of spend that could be made through the Framework Agreement.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 2 suppliers · 13 bids received (6.5 per place) · 2 appointed (full)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The BBC has Awarded a Framework Agreement to two suppliersAwarded
The BBC has Awarded a Framework Agreement to two suppliers.
Suppliers will be providing a range of services including but not limited to Accessibility Training and Learning, Accessibility Consultancy, Accessibility and Inclusive Design reviews against industry and BBC accessibility guidelines and standards as well as support with non W3C complaint technologies.
The spend range over the 4 year term is between £400,000 to £600,000
The spend ranges are not committed spend ranges, and are therefore "only an
estimation" of spend that could be made through the Framework Agreement.
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 award criteria (2)
- Quality: 65%
- Price: 35%
- Suitability
Where there is more than one economic operator, the BBC reserves the right to require a grouping of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
Please register your interest in this project by taking the following steps:
- Register your company on the Jaggaer e-Tendering portal (this is only required once):
1.1 Go to bbc.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
1.2 Click the link on the login page to register;
1.3 Accept the terms and conditions and click 'Continue';
1.4 Enter your correct business and user details;
1.5 Note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete;
1.6 You will shortly receive an email with your temporary password.
- Express an interest in the tender:
2.1 Login to the portal with the username/password;
2.2 Click the 'PQQs/ITTs Open to all Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification
Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier).
2.3 Click on the relevant PQQ/ITT to access the content;
2.4 Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ/ITT into your 'My PQQs/My ITTs page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only;
2.5 You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'PQQ/ITT Details'box.
- Responding to the tender:
3.1 Click 'My Response' under PQQ/ITT Details', you can choose to 'Create Response' or to 'Decline to…
- Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Digital Accessibility Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 2 suppliers, not a single contract.
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
- 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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Aug 2024, 11:30 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Jan 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 23 Sept 2024 – …
- Authority reference
PROC_2024_24_AN- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-001914- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0492eaFind a Tender
- Review procedure
As stated in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The applicable review time limits shall be as stated in Regulations 92 and 93 Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
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 notice- Appointment period ends
- 23 Sept 2024, 14:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 23 Sept 2024, 14:00 BST
Timeline
23 Sept 2024 → 20 Jan 2025 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown23 Sept 2024, 14:00 BST
- Bids opened23 Sept 2024, 14:00 BST
- Notice published20 Jan 2025, 15:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete20 Jan 2025, 15:59 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £600,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Digital Accessibility Services
- Signed
- 13 Jan 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Digital Accessibility Services
- Signed
- 13 Jan 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Business and Property Courts of England and Wales - TCCReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- Nexer DigitalFramework contractor
- Nomensa LtdFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria