Official UK procurement notice
ID 1678809 - DFE TOURISM NI BUSINESS SUPPORT
Authority: DfE Tourism Northern Ireland (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFollowing a competition advertised in the Official Journal of the EU on 30/11/18 the Department for the Economy Tourism NI entered into a Business Support Programme contract but due to the impact of Covid-19 the level of support required by tourism businesses has been unprecedented and unforeseen at the time of securing the contract. In continuing to support the sector recover via the roll out of the Tourism Recovery Action Plan, it is anticipated that the 8 months remaining will require an ongoing high level of support for the tourism sector businesses therefore Tourism NI requires a variation to the value of the contract to ensure it is able to deliver the required level of support to the industry. Tourism NI wishes to increase the value of the contract by £2,250,000 ex VAT (50% of the original contract value), to cover requirements until the end of the contract (18/02/2022). Tourism NI is relying on the Regulation 72(1)(c) provision as the need for change could not have been foreseen by a “diligent” contracting authority. This is on the basis that the level of support required by tourism businesses has increased dramatically due to the impact of the pandemic which could not have been predicted and these increased requirements could not have been foreseen or accounted for when estimating the contract value at the time of tender. This additional funding will continue to support the sector recover via the roll out of the Tourism Recovery Action Plan. The changes required do not affect the overall nature of the contract.
CPV: General management consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Northern Ireland Tourist Board trading as Tourism Northern Ireland appointed a…
The Northern Ireland Tourist Board trading as Tourism Northern Ireland appointed a Contractor to
provide a Managed Business Support Service to the Tourism Industry. The Contractor was required to ensure a full supply of Industry experts to act as business support personnel to meet the requirements of the
specification. Additional information: This voluntary transparency notice has been published to alert economic operators of the Department. for Economy intention to further modify the DFE Tourism NI Business Support Programme contract under Regulation 72(1)(c) of the Public Contract Regulations (as amended). The modification will take the form of an increase in spend over the last 8 months of the contract at a cost of £2.25 million. A modification notice will be published after the modification has been formalised.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Sept 2021, 11:54 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Sept 2021, 11:54 BST
- Authority reference
ID 1678809- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-022376- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ded7Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Regulation 72(1)(c) provision ‘the need for change could not have been foreseen by a “diligent” contracting authority’ based on the level of support required by tourism businesses increasing dramatically due to the impact of the pandemic which was unprecedented and unforeseen at the time of contract award. This additional funding will continue to support the sector recover via the roll out of the Tourism Recovery Action Plan. The changes required do not affect the overall nature of the contract.
Publisher note: The value of the modification is a cost of £2,250,000 for the last 8 months of the contract. The orignal award value in Feruary 2019 was £4,500,000.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHOLESCHOOL SOFTWARE LIMITEDSMEID 1678809 DfE Tourism NI - Business Support Programme | £6,750,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
ID 1678809 DfE Tourism NI - Business Support Programme · WHOLESCHOOL SOFTWARE LIMITEDSME
- Signed
- 19 Feb 2019
- Value
- £6,750,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- UK Contracting Authorities do not have a review procedure in place. Economic Operators have access to the NI Courts andReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Wholeschool Software Ltd.Awarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.