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Published 20 Jul 2022, 11:43 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Halton Housing Cloud Solutions Provider

Official notice

Authority: Halton Housing

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£360,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 22 Aug 2022awarded 18 Oct 2022
Awarded to Phoenix Software Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Halton Housing sought tenders for an Azure Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP). HH have migrated all infrastructure into Microsoft Azure in the past 12-18 months, resulting in a significant rise in consumption. HH have also recently moved from Azure Legacy onto Azure Plan.Moving forward, HH would like to work with a CSP who will engage on a regular basis, offering proactive account management, cost optimisation advice and best practice guidance around developments in the Azure world.The outcome of the tender process will be a 3-year contract expected to commence from September 2022. The contract will be awarded to 1 service provider.

  • Recurrence: 2025

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Halton Housing sought tenders for an Azure Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP)AwardedPublished value£360,000

Halton Housing sought tenders for an Azure Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP). HH have migrated all infrastructure into Microsoft Azure in the past 12-18 months, resulting in a significant rise in consumption. HH have also recently moved from Azure Legacy onto Azure Plan.Moving forward, Halton Housing would like to work with a CSP who will engage on a regular basis, offering proactive account management, cost optimisation advice and best practice guidance around developments in the Azure world.The outcome of the tender process will be a 3-year contract expected to commence from September 2022. The contract will be awarded to 1 service provider. HH spend approximately £10,000 (excluding VAT) per month on their current service, however the intention is to reduce Cloud usage over the 3-year term of this contract to around half of current levels. Halton Housing accept no liability for any inaccuracies in the estimates provided and reserve the right to vary the volume of work during the life of the contract.

Delivery: North West
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 award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 60
  • Price: 40
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    Any supplier may be disqualified who has been convicted of:(a) conspiracy within the meaning of section 1 or 1A of the Criminal Law Act 1977(a) or article 9 or 9A of the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983(b) where that conspiracy relates to participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA on the fight against organised crime(c);(b) corruption within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889(d) or section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906(e);(c) the common law offence of bribery;(d) bribery within the meaning of sections 1, 2 or 6 of the Bribery Act 2010(f), or section 113 of the Representation of the People Act 1983(g);(e) where the offence relates to fraud affecting the European Communities’ financial interests as defined by Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities(h):—(i) the common law offence of cheating the Revenue;(ii) the common law offence of conspiracy to defraud;(iii) fraud or theft within the meaning of the Theft Act 1968(i), the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969(j), the Theft Act 1978(k) or the Theft (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(l);(iv) fraudulent trading within the meaning of section 458 of the Companies Act 1985(m), article 451 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(n) or section 993 of the Companies Act 2006(o);(v) fraudulent evasion within the meaning of section 17…

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 · 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
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · 2025
First published
20 Jul 2022, 11:43 BST
Last source update
25 Nov 2022, 11:05 GMT
Award evaluation window
22 Aug 2022 – …
Authority reference
Halton Housing 0059
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-033468
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0353c3 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

This tender process incorporated a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award is communicated to tenderers. Appeals could be directly raised via the contact points detailed in sectionVI.4.1 of this contract notice. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 #102 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Publisher note: Please apply via our In-tend portal https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/cirruspurchasing/aspx/Home. Please see the tender documents available from this link for additional information on the services required and the tender evaluation criteria.

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
22 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
22 Aug 2022, 12:01 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

22 Aug 2022 → 25 Nov 2022 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    22 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    22 Aug 2022, 12:01 BST
  3. Notice published
    25 Nov 2022, 11:05 GMT

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    25 Nov 2022, 11:05 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £360,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 84 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 18 Oct 2022
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Phoenix Software Ltd£360,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
8bids · 8 electronic4——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Halton Housing

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawHousing and community amenities Waterfront Point, Warrington Road, Widnes, North West, WA8 0TDContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Royal Courts of JusticeReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Phoenix Software LtdAwarded supplier02548628 Bytes House, Randalls Way, , Leatherhead, South East, KT22 7TW

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

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