Official UK procurement notice
IT Consultancy Services Framework
Authority: Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB) (Public body)
Rail Safety and Standards (RSSB) seeks to procure the best expertise available within the marketplace that offer specialist technical IT Consultancy services. Our IT programme and projects require general and specialist technical consultancy support. Published lot titles: Data Science and Visualisation; Product and Capability Development; IT Infrastructure.
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionRail Safety and Standards (RSSB) seeks to procure the best expertise available within the marketplace that offer specialist technical IT Consultancy services. Our IT programme and projects require general and specialist technical consultancy support. RSSB recognises that it cannot entirely internally satisfy its future demand for suitably experienced specialist and professionally qualified experts and as a result is seeking to procure these through the IT Consultancy Framework. Potential providers are hereby invited to tender for these Services. Revised deadline for submitting tenders is 4 pm - 12 August 2022.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published valueEvery one of these 3 lots carries the same published figure, £2,000,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1Data Science and VisualisationRenewalceiling above
Data Scientist
The exact data science skills and expertise required will be project dependant, but in general we will require machine learning, machine vision and natural language processing expertise.
Data Visualisation and Data Engineer
The Azure and data handling skills and expertise required will be project dependant, and will include understanding and challenging business requirements; designing end-to-end technical solutions to data engineering problems; building data pipelines and simple APIs to load data into the RSSB reporting platform; and developing scripts. It will also involve generating ETL processes and data warehouse models to stage, transform and combine data; and enable reporting, data integration and decisions support tools.
Lot #2Product and Capability DevelopmentRenewalceiling above
Lot 2a - Sitecore and .net - The .net and Sitecore skills and expertise required will be for specific projects and maintenance of applications.
Lot 2b - Dynamics - The dynamics skills and expertise required would be the ability to implement and extend dynamics D365 within a business environment, advising on best practices to ensure its features are utilised to the fullest. The responsibilities will be throughout the product lifecycle from discovery, development, testing, and deployment.
Lot 2c - Testing - The testing skills and expertise required would be the ability to lead the testing of business systems across the business. The responsibilities can be over the whole test lifecycle including defining the test strategy and plan along with carry out the testing and presenting the results.
Lot 2d – User Experience and User Interaction - The UX and UI required will be for specific projects. We will be looking at working in an iterative way to do visual design that is through the understanding of users and business goals, prototypes to test hypotheses and delivering final designs for the development teams. This could be for just the front end of the application through to a full-service design.
Lot #3IT InfrastructureRenewalceiling above
The IT Infrastructure skills and expertise required will be support or project dependant:
Lot 3a - Infrastructure Support - Provision of skilled technical expertise on Service Level Agreement (SLA) basis covering different priority incidents to assist RSSB technical resources in the event of an incident to restore, recover, rebuild a technical service impacting the services as per requirements.
Lot 3b - Infrastructure Security Support - Provision of skilled technical expertise on SLA basis covering different priority incidents to assist RSSB security and technical resources in the event of a disaster recovery incident or to restore/ recover in the event of a security incident of Severity CVE 7.0 and above.
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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).
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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).
- Suitability
Please refer to tender documents
- “IT Consultancy Services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 6 Jul 2022, 10:05 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Jul 2022, 16:05 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 5 Aug 2022 – …
- Authority reference
673826195- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-020677- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-034ea9Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Please refer to tender documents
Publisher note: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://rssb.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-IT-services:-consulting%2C-software-development%2C-Internet-and-support./X5MFG7Q4V8 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://rssb.delta-esourcing.com/respond/X5MFG7Q4V8 GO Reference: GO-202276-PRO-20559253
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 5 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 5 Aug 2022, 12:30 BST
Timeline
28 Jul 2022 → 5 Aug 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published28 Jul 2022, 16:05 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown5 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened5 Aug 2022, 12:30 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders: · IV.2.7 | 5 Aug 2022 | 12 Aug 2022 | +7 d |
Revised deadline for submitting tenders is 4 pm on 12 August 2022. Also, please review questions and answers in the Delta eSourcing document repository. Delta eSourcing Access Code: X5MFG7Q4V8. The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the c…
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- RSSBMediation bodyReview contact point
- Rail Safety and Standards BoardReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria