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Published 4 Jan 2021, 11:08 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

ID 3126116 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of a Northern Ireland Aerospace Diversification Programme

Official notice

Authority: Invest Northern Ireland (Central government)

ServicesOpen procedureAccelerated

Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Northern Ireland (UKN)

Awarded value£136,500published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 4 Jan 2021

Awarded to KPMG

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Invest NI wishes to appoint a Contractor to deliver a Northern Ireland Aerospace Customer Diversification Programme. The Programme shall focus on researching and identifying opportunities and generating leads in complementary, high value advanced manufacturing sectors. The Programme shall place emphasis on those external markets where the Northern Ireland Aerospace supply chain and associated technology supply chain can compete and will identify and target emerging opportunities in aerospace to position the sector for the inevitable upturn and new world of aerospace. The Programme will research and identify areas where the existing manufacturing supply chain can collaborate with Northern Ireland’s cybersecurity and technology sectors to target emerging opportunities in new sectors and aerospace with a view to the decarbonisation of aviation.

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Business and management consultancy services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Research and development consultancy services · Research and development services and related consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: Northern Ireland

Extensions: This Contract is anticipated to commence in December 2020 and shall remain in force until 5 April 2022. Therewill be an option within the Contract, pending satisfactory performance and evaluation and budgetary approval, to extend the programmeon for one further period of 12 months

73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services 73200000 Research and development consultancy services 79400000 Business and management consultancy and related services 79410000 Business and management consultancy services

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: 59.5%Price: 30%Environmental: 10.5%

Published sub-criteria (8)

AC1 Key Personnel Experience Aerospace, Defence and Space.: 15.4%
AC2 Key Personnel Experience in Advanced Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Electric vehicles, Hydrogen Economy, and Cybersecurity.: 14.7%
AC3 Research and identify new sectors / markets / customers for the Northern Ireland Aerospace supply chain: 14%
AC5 Undertake a review of the capabilities of the wider Northern Ireland Aerospace supply chain.: 8.4%
AC6 Identify key differentiators / Unique Selling Points USPs – for the identified new diversification sectors and the aerospace sector.: 4.2%
AC7 Sales and marketing promotional tools: 2.8%
AC8 Total Contract Price: 30%
AC4 Research and identify opportunities for existing Northern Ireland Aerospace cluster to collaborate with Northern Ireland technology sector to target emerging opportunities in aerospace and in particular decarbonisation/ green aviation.: 10.5%

Published award criteria (8)

AC1 Key Personnel Experience Aerospace, Defence and Space.: 15.4
AC2 Key Personnel Experience in Advanced Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Electric vehicles, Hydrogen Economy, and Cybersecurity.: 14.7
AC3 Research and identify new sectors / markets / customers for the Northern Ireland Aerospace supply chain: 14
AC4 Research and identify opportunities for existing Northern Ireland Aerospace cluster to collaborate with Northern Ireland technology sector to target emerging opportunities in aerospace and in particular decarbonisation/ green aviation.: 10.5
AC5 Undertake a review of the capabilities of the wider Northern Ireland Aerospace supply chain.: 8.4
AC6 Identify key differentiators / Unique Selling Points USPs – for the identified new diversification sectors and the aerospace sector.: 4.2
AC7 Sales and marketing promotional tools: 2.8
AC8 Total Contract Price: 30

What this means for your bid

Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 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: Unspecified in notice
First published: 4 Jan 2021, 11:08 GMT
Last source update: 4 Jan 2021, 11:08 GMT
Authority reference: ID 3126116
FTS notice number: 2021/S 000-000025
Accelerated: The COVID-19 outbreak has given rise to an urgent need for the supply of strategic research to inform the diversification of the Northern Ireland Aerospace manufacturing supply chain which has been devastated by the reduction in air travel (2000 job losses since March 2020). The available budget is only in place until 5th April 2021 to deliver the outputs for Phase 1 of the Programme, and if Phase 1 is not successfully completed within this timeframe, the anticipated benefits of the research will not be realised, and the potential to secure budget to deliver Phases 2 and 3 of this critical Programme will be lost. This does not give Invest Northern Ireland sufficient time to comply with the standard open procedure timescales for this procurement. Invest Northern Ireland
considers this to be a state of urgency which it has duly substantiated. Accordingly, Invest Northern Ireland is using the accelerated
time limits permitted under PCR2015 (regulation 27(5) in respect of this procurement
Classification (CPV): Business and management consultancy and related servicesBusiness and management consultancy servicesBusiness services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityResearch and development consultancy servicesResearch and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery area: Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02875f Find a Tender

Review and risk notes

Review procedure: CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and incorporated a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract was communicated to tenderers. That notification provided full information on the award decision. This provided time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract was 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..

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £136,5001 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 2

Contracts signed 1latest 4 Jan 2021

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
KPMGContract	£136,500 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract · KPMG
Signed
4 Jan 2021
Value
£136,500
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad	0	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Invest Northern Ireland

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawGeneral public services 1 Bedford St, BELFAST, UK, BT2 7EsContact email

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 Belfast

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

KPMGAwarded supplier The Soloist Building, 1 Lanyon Place, Belfast, UK, BT1 3LPContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.