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Published 6 Jul 2022, 10:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

IT Consultancy Services Framework

Official notice

Authority: Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB) (Public body)

Framework agreement3 lotsServicesOpen procedure
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Framework ceiling (notional)£6,000,000total for 3 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Submissions closed 5 Aug 2022
Lots 3see the lot list below
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

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 description

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. 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 value

Every 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.

Delivery: UK · UNITED KINGDOM
Extensions: The duration may be extended in respect of some or all Suppliers by up to a further 12 months, subject to a review of Suppliers’ performance and RSSB’s requirements.Variant bids: not allowed
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.

Delivery: UK · UNITED KINGDOM
Extensions: The duration may be extended in respect of some or all Suppliers by up to a further 12 months, subject to a review of Suppliers’ performance and RSSB’s requirements.Variant bids: not allowed
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.

Delivery: UK · UNITED KINGDOM
Extensions: The duration may be extended in respect of some or all Suppliers by up to a further 12 months, subject to a review of Suppliers’ performance and RSSB’s requirements.Variant bids: not allowed

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
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    Please refer to tender documents

What this means for your bid
  • “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)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-034ea9 Find a Tender
Contract terms
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
Run through: Delta eSourcing · Who buys & how to bid on Delta
Public notice page · account needed to bidLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free Select account; no DUNS asked at signup
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
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

28 Jul 2022 → 5 Aug 2022 · 3 dates
  1. Notice published
    28 Jul 2022, 16:05 BST
  2. Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown
    5 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
  3. Bids opened
    5 Aug 2022, 12:30 BST

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders: · IV.2.75 Aug 202212 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

Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB)

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawRailway safety and research services 04655675 The Helicon, 1 South Place, London, UK, EC2M 2RBContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria