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Published 24 Aug 2021, 11:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

ID 3519924 DoF - Spatial NI Managed Service

Official notice

Authority: Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland - Land Property Services·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£137,500exc. VAT0.7% below published estimate
Submissions closed 24 Sept 2021awarded 11 Oct 2021
Awarded to Esri Ireland Ltd.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Spatial NI managed service contract expires on 10th October 2021. Therefore a new contract is required to be operational from 11 October 2021 for support and maintenance of the Spatial NI system. This tender exercise aims to provide continued managed service cover until the expiry of the NICS GI support contract on 19th October 2024. The scope of this project is to successfully continue the provision of an Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) web services platform from Land and Property Services (LPS) Ordnance Survey with associated business and process change, which will serve the organisation’s business needs for of the next 3 years from 11th October 2021 and provide continuity of delivery of Northern Ireland Mapping Agreement and Local Government Mapping Agreement. The Spatial NI system is built with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise which LPS uses to provide web mapping services to NIMA customers. The solution is hosted on the Northern Ireland Civil Service cloud infrastructure and managed by IT Assist. The managed service contract will be focused on management and support of the software provided by the incumbent supplier. Please see document entitled “ID 3519224 for full details of the requirement”.

CPV: Computer support and consultancy services · Computer support services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedPublished value£137,500

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: 40%Price: 60%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Qualitative Criteria: 40%
  • price: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Qualitative Criteria: 40
  • Price: 60
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
24 Aug 2021, 11:05 BST
Last source update
11 Oct 2021, 14:04 BST
Award evaluation window
24 Sept 2021 – …
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-025352
Classification (CPV)
Computer support and consultancy servicesComputer support servicesIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02d8a3 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

The Public Contract Regulations 2015 provide 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). The Authority incorporated a standstill period before this contract was awarded. The standstill period was for a minimum of 10 calendar days..

Publisher note: 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 3 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. 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
24 Sept 2021, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
24 Sept 2021, 15:30 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

24 Sept 2021 → 23 Dec 2021 · 4 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    24 Sept 2021, 15:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    24 Sept 2021, 15:30 BST
  3. Notice published
    11 Oct 2021, 14:04 BST
  4. Bids must remain valid until
    23 Dec 2021, 23:59 GMT

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Oct 2021
  1. Status changed to complete
    11 Oct 2021, 14:04 BST
  2. Buyer details updated
    11 Oct 2021, 14:04 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £136,5861 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 11 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 11 Oct 2021
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Esri Ireland Ltd.SMEContract£136,586 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland - Land Property Services

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawGeneral public services Lanyon Plaza, 7 Lanyon Place, BELFAST, UK, BT1 3LPContact name, email

Consortium members and other public bodies

  • Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland - Land and Property ServicesContracting authorityBody governed by public lawGeneral public services BELFAST, UKContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

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

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Esri Ireland Ltd.Awarded supplier Block B Ashtown Gate, Dublin, IE, 15Contact email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.