Official UK procurement notice
ID 4495113 - DfE - TOURISM NI - TOURISM BUSINESS HUB AND WEBSITE SUPPORT MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT
Authority: Tourism NI
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTourism Northern Ireland (TNI) is responsible for the development of tourism and the marketing of Northern Ireland as a tourist destination to domestic tourists, from within Northern Ireland, and to visitors from the Republic of Ireland. Underpinning Tourism NI’s key priorities is a Transformation Programme, including an organisation restructure and the ongoing development of a secure, cloud-based IT infrastructure. Tourism NI wish to procure a contract for the support, maintenance, licencing and development of our current corporate and industry website, tourismni.com. The website requires to operate on Optimizely (previously Episerver) Content Management System (CMS) and requires full integration with Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System and software applications to deliver the functionality as detailed in this specification. TNI would like to procure a platform-as-a-service with out of the box functionality that only requires implementation and training to empower Tourism NI staff to utilise this functionality. The initial contract period is for 3 years with 1 further optional extension period of up to 2 years. Please refer to the document entitled “ID 4495113 – Specification” for full details of the requirement.
- Recurrence: This contract will potentially be due to be re-procured after the initial contract period and/or following any extensions
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£1,666,667
What it takes to wini
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Qualitative Criteria: 60%
- Quantitative Criteria: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Qualitative Criteria: 60
- Quantitative Criteria: 40
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 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
Yes · This contract will potentially be due to be re-procured after the initial contract period and/or following any extensions
- First published
- 7 Nov 2023, 16:48 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Mar 2024, 14:13 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 12 Dec 2023 – …
- Authority reference
ID 4495113- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-007541- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04168fFind a Tender
- Review procedure
CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) 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: The total contract value of £160,6534.50 included within this Award Notice represents the figure that was used for evaluation purposes of this competition. This figure was calculated inclusive of Tourism NI’s estimated usage for Application Lifestyle Management, general Website development, work packages, additional services and out of hours support. The actual value of the contract will depend upon the usage requirements of Tourism NI throughout the duration of the contract and therefore the actual total contract may be more or less than this published total value amount. 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 construction and procurement delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, this may be considered grounds for termination of the contract at your expense as provided for in the Conditions of Contract. In lieu of termination, CPD may issue a Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance. A supplier in receipt of multiple Notices of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance may, in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended), be excluded from future public procurement competitions for a period of. up to three years..
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 12 Dec 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 12 Dec 2023, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
12 Dec 2023 → 11 Mar 2024 · 4 dates- Submission deadline12 Dec 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened12 Dec 2023, 15:30 GMT
- Notice published8 Mar 2024, 14:13 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until11 Mar 2024, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete8 Mar 2024, 14:13 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNRVLD LtdSMEContract | £1,606,535 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract · UNRVLD LtdSME
- Signed
- 15 Feb 2024
- Value
- £1,606,535
- 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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures. 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 as amended.Review body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- UNRVLD LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.