Official UK procurement notice
ID 3534429 - DoF - Purchase of patching product for non-Microsoft products on desktop clients
Authority: The Department of Finance,·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIT Assist has responsibility for the delivery of common IT systems and services to support the business objectives of the 9 Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) Departments and approximately 40 Arms-Length organisations. Services are delivered to approximately 28000 NICS staff and customers located across Northern Ireland. One of the services is the supply, management and security of client desktop/laptops for customers to use for the execution of their business. IT Assist currently use Microsoft SCCM 2019 for the management and security patching of all client desktop and laptops. SCCM is used to scan and apply the required patches for all Microsoft products on the clients and a small number of 3rd party products security patches are applied for example Adobe. For the 3rd party applications a SCCM package has to be developed each time containing the latest patch and pushed out to every desktop. IT Assist has identified a need for a product that will allow them to more efficiently manage the security patching of the large number of 3rd party applications that are in use while maintaining the well embedded SCCM client infrastructure. IT Assist requires a 5 year contract (3 years initial with 2 optional extension years) for the supply and delivery of a patch management system to integrate into the SCCM environment that will allow clients to have 3rd party non Microsoft products security patched. Please see document entitled “ID 3534429– Specification Schedule” for full details of the requirement”.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Information systems and servers · Software package utilities · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
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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 morei
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).
- Price
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
- 6 Sept 2021, 16:35 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Jan 2022, 14:04 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 8 Oct 2021 – …
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-001473- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- 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. The 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: 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- Submission deadline
- 8 Oct 2021, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 8 Oct 2021, 15:30 BST
Timeline
8 Oct 2021 → 18 Jan 2022 · 4 dates- Submission deadline8 Oct 2021, 15:00 BST
- Bids opened8 Oct 2021, 15:30 BST
- Bids must remain valid until6 Jan 2022, 23:59 GMT
- Notice published18 Jan 2022, 14:04 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Jan 2022- Status changed to complete18 Jan 2022, 14:04 GMT
- Buyer details updated18 Jan 2022, 14:04 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOOP1 SYSTEMS INCSMEContract | £144,008 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract · LOOP1 SYSTEMS INCSME
- Signed
- 2 Dec 2021
- Value
- £144,008
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Department of FinanceContracting authorityBody governed by public lawGeneral public services
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
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- LOOP1 SYSTEMS INCAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.