Official UK procurement notice
ID 3273916 - DE CCEA - Confidential Typesetting Contract
Authority: Department of Education (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Client wishes to appoint Contractor for the provision of Confidential Typesetting Services. The Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA “the Client”) advises the Education Minister on what is to be taught in Northern Ireland schools and on the examination and assessment arrangements for pupils. The Client also conducts pupil assessment at the end of Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. As well as the above, the Client ensures that the qualifications and examinations offered by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an appropriate quality and standard. The Client has been responsible for providing Northern Ireland GCSE and GCE A/AS and its predecessor examinations since 1970. In excess of 650 papers are offered to candidates in a variety of subjects.
CPV: Digital printing services · Printing and delivery services · Printing and distribution services · Printing services · Typesetting services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£679,000
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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 20 Jul 2021, 13:05 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Jul 2021, 13:05 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 24 Aug 2021 – …
- Authority reference
ID 3273916- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-017056- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as ammended). 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 the contract will be regularly monitored. 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 Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated.. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will 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 for a. period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate.” . . 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- Submission deadline
- 24 Aug 2021, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 24 Aug 2021, 15:30 BST
Timeline
20 Jul 2021 → 22 Nov 2021 · 4 dates- Notice published20 Jul 2021, 13:05 BST
- Submission deadline24 Aug 2021, 15:00 BST
- Bids opened24 Aug 2021, 15:30 BST
- Bids must remain valid until22 Nov 2021, 23:59 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Department of Education NIContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation proceduresReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria