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Published 19 Jul 2021, 17:15 BST

Official UK procurement notice

ID 2963897 - DoJ - Fully Managed Services for Legal Aid Management System (LAMS)

Official notice

Authority: Department of Justice (Central government)

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£15,000,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 19 Aug 2021

What is being bought

Published requirement description

ID 2963897 - DoJ - Fully Managed Services for Legal Aid Management System (LAMS) – The Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland wishes to appoint a suitably experienced Contractor to undertake the managed service - support, maintenance and continued development of LAMS along with all its existing components and interfaces.

CPV: Computer support and consultancy services · Computer-related services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software-related services · System and support services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Published value£15,000,000
Extensions: Contract duration is 60 months with options to extend for 3 further 12 months each.Variant bids: not allowed

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
Closed
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
First published
19 Jul 2021, 17:15 BST
Last source update
19 Jul 2021, 17:15 BST
Award evaluation window
19 Aug 2021 – …
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-016971
Classification (CPV)
Computer support and consultancy servicesComputer-related servicesIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportSoftware-related servicesSystem and support services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02c9b8 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where. appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is.. communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful. tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into..

Publisher note: Contract Monitoring. The successful Contractor’s performance on this Contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly.. monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 - Contract Management - Procedures and Principles). Contractors not delivering.. on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach.. satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach.. satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. . . If this occurs.. and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave.. professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and this Contract may be terminated.. A. central register of such Notices for supplies and services contracts will be maintained and published on the CPD website.. . Any. contractor. in receipt of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period. of three. years from the date of issue of the Notice. It may also result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions. being. undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy.. . Insert.. appropriate reservations of rights and disclaimers of liability here consider - e.g.. . "The Authority expressly reserves the rights:. . (I). not.. to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;. (II). to make whatever changes.. it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition;. (III). to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the.. [services] covered by this notice; and. (IV). to award contract(s) in stages.. . and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any.. costs incurred by candidates."...

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: eTendersNI · Who buys & how to bid on eTendersNI
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free Northern Ireland registration
Submission deadline
19 Aug 2021, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
19 Aug 2021, 15:30 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

19 Jul 2021 → 17 Nov 2021 · 4 dates
  1. Notice published
    19 Jul 2021, 17:15 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    19 Aug 2021, 15:00 BST
  3. Bids opened
    19 Aug 2021, 15:30 BST
  4. Bids must remain valid until
    17 Nov 2021, 23:59 GMT

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department of Justice

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawGeneral public services Block B Castle Buildings, Stormont Estate, BELFAST, UK, BT4 3SGContact email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • The UK does not have any special review body with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures in public procurement competitions. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015’.Review body UK

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.