Official UK procurement notice
ID 5373395 Tourism Northern Ireland - Destination Management System (DMS) and Content Management System (CMS)
Authority: Tourism Northern Ireland (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTourism Northern Ireland (Tourism NI) is responsible for the development of tourism and the marketing of Northern Ireland as a tourist destination, using the discovernorthernireland.com website. Tourism NI require a supplier to deliver a Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) e-Tourism solution to support the migration, delivery, licencing, support, maintenance and development of a Content Management System (CMS) and Destination Management System (DMS), outputting as the consumer destination website discovernorthernireland.com.
CPV: Content management software development services · Content management software package · Database and operating software development services · Database-management system · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Programming services of application software · Software package and information systems · System, storage and content management software development services · System, storage and content management software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£2,800,000
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 (6)
- AC1 Proposed Methodology and Implementation Plan for discovernorthernireland.com: 15%
- AC2 Proposed Methodology and Implementation Plan for Shared Extranet Outputting to Partner Websites: 15%
- AC3 Contract Management and Business Continuity: 10.2%
- AC4 Data Protection: 9.6%
- AC6 Total Contract Cost: 40%
- AC5 Social Value: 10.2%
Published award criteria (6)
- AC1 Proposed Methodology and Implementation Plan for discovernorthernireland.com: 15
- AC2 Proposed Methodology and Implementation Plan for Shared Extranet Outputting to Partner Websites: 15
- AC3 Contract Management and Business Continuity: 10.2
- AC4 Data Protection: 9.6
- AC5 Social Value: 10.2
- AC6 Total Contract Cost: 40
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. Quality carries 49.8 of 100: the paper moves it further than 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 19 Nov 2024, 17:06 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Mar 2025, 17:05 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 19 Dec 2024 – …
- Authority reference
ID 5373395- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010999- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04bd09Find a Tender
- 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: The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with the tender documentation. 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 the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance can 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 three years from the date of issue..
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 19 Dec 2024, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 19 Dec 2024, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
19 Dec 2024 → 24 Mar 2025 · 4 dates- Submission deadline19 Dec 2024, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened19 Dec 2024, 15:30 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until19 Mar 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Notice published24 Mar 2025, 17:05 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Mar 2025- Status changed to complete24 Mar 2025, 17:05 GMT
- Buyer details updated24 Mar 2025, 17:05 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMPLEVIEW LLCSMEContract | £2,133,587 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract · SIMPLEVIEW LLCSME
- Signed
- 10 Mar 2025
- Value
- £2,133,587
- 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 noticeDispute 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
- 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. Postal addressReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- SIMPLEVIEW LLCAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.