Official UK procurement notice
DoF - 4603804 - PSD Procurement Of Fire Safety Consultant
Authority: Department of Finance, Construction Procurement Delivery·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThis Competition Is For The Appointment Of Two Fire Risk Assessor Consultancy Appointments For The Provision Of Fire Risk Assessments For Dof Property Services Division - Fire Safety Section. The Consultancy Service Includes Undertaking Surveys And Preparation Of Fire Risk Assessment Reports.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 2 suppliers · 2 bids on the busiest of 2 lots (1.0 per place) · 1 appointed
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value · win at most 1 of them · evaluation weights differ by lotEvery one of these 2 lots carries the same published figure, £150,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1NorthAwardedceiling above
Lot #2SouthAwardedceiling above
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).
- Price carries 90 points on every lot: a 10% discount moves about 9 points.
- “DoF - 4603804 - PSD Procurement Of Fire Safety Consultant” 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
- 9 Dec 2022, 14:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Feb 2024, 10:57 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 16 Jan 2023 – …
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-003831- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-038c4eFind a Tender
- Performance terms
The Economic Operators’ performance on this Contract will be regularly monitored. As part of its contract . management procedures, the Contracting Authority will use the Protocol for Managing Poor Supplier Performance . contained in Procurement Guidance Note PGN 01/12 – Contract Management Principles and Procedures. . www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/procure… ↗ procedures. If an Economic Operator has received more than one current Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of . Unsatisfactory Performance, the Contracting Authority, at its discretion, can consider an Economic Operator’s . exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public . Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively A. list. of bodies subject to . Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy can be viewed at www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public ↗ bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies
- Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: . This procurement is governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and provides for economic operators who . have suffered, or who risk suffering, loss, or damage, as a consequence of an alleged breach of the duty owed in . accordance with Regulation 91 to start proceedings in the High Court. A standstill period will commence at the . point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide . information on the award decision. . The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to . challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. Any proceedings relating to any perceived non-compliance with the relevant law must be started within 30 days, beginning with the date when the economic . operator first knew, or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. (A court may . extend the time limit to 3 months, where the court considers that there is a good reason for doing so).
Publisher note: The Authority expressly reserves the right (a) not to award any Contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; (b) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates participating in this competition. Contracts awarded as a result of this procurement process shall be considered as a contract made in Northern Ireland and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Northern Ireland Courts. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any contracts as a result of this competition. The process may be terminated or suspended at any time without cost or liability to the Contracting Authority. While it intends to do so, the Contracting Authority does not bind itself or others to enter into any contract arising out of the procedures envisaged by this notice. No contractual rights expressed or implied arise out of the notice or procedures envisaged by it. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to vary its requirements and the procedures relating to the conduct of the award process. The Contracting Authority shall disqualify any Economic Operator which is ineligible under Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) (subject to any overriding public interest requirement) and reserves the right to disqualify any organisation which: (a) Provides information or confirmations which later prove to be untrue or incorrect; (b) Does not supply the information within the timescale required by this notice or by the Invitation to Tender Documentation or as otherwise required during the process.Instructions on how to submit a tender; - Suppliers must be registered on the Contracting Authorities eprocurement portal, eTendersNI available on the following link: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do. All suppliers should follow the instructions on how to submit a tender within the Introduction and Brief Explanation document held within the documents area for this procurement on the eTendersNI portal.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 16 Jan 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 16 Jan 2023, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
16 Jan 2023 → 6 Feb 2024 · 4 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown16 Jan 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened16 Jan 2023, 15:30 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until16 May 2023, 23:59 BST
- Notice published6 Feb 2024, 10:57 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Feb 2024- Status changed to complete6 Feb 2024, 10:57 GMT
- Buyer details updated6 Feb 2024, 10:57 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
Lot 1 - North
- Signed
- 6 Feb 2024
- Value
- £103,500
- Status
- active
Lot 2 - South
- Signed
- 6 Feb 2024
- Value
- £108,300
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · North | 2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
| 2 · South | 2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Department of Finance, Central Procurement Directorate Procurement Operations BranchReview body
- Department of Finance, Procurement Operations BranchReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- FRSNI LIMITEDFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria