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Published 4 Jun 2024, 09:07 BST

Official UK procurement notice

NIPB 5386646 Gates and Barriers Services - PSNI Estate

Official notice

Authority: Northern Ireland Policing Board (Public body)

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£6,500,000exc. VAT21.7% below published estimate
Submissions closed 2 Aug 2024awarded 5 Dec 2024
Awarded to SECURITY CONTRACT INFORMATION WITHHELD

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Employer Is Looking To Appoint A Single Economic Operator (Contractor) For The Provision Of Gates and Barriers Services Across The PSNI Estate Utilising An Nec4 Term Service Contract.

CPV: Installation of gates · Repair and maintenance services of mechanical building installations

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedPublished value£6,500,000
Delivery: Northern Ireland · Northern Ireland
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
How bids were scored
Quality: 40%Price: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
  • QUALITY: 40
  • Price: 60
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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
4 Jun 2024, 09:07 BST
Last source update
17 Feb 2026, 11:22 GMT
Award evaluation window
10 Jul 2024 – …
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-014203
Classification (CPV)
Installation of gatesRepair and maintenance services of mechanical building installations
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN0)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046d27 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering
Performance terms

The Economic Operators’ performance on this Framework Agreement will be regularly. monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the Contracting Authority will use the Protocol for Managing Poor Supplier. Performance contained in Annex K of the Construction Procurement Toolkit see www.finance-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/ ↗. publications/dfp/Protocol%20for%20Managing%20Supplier%20Poor%20Performance%20-%20ACC.pdf . . If an Economic Operator has. received more than one current Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance, the Contracting Authority, at its. discretion, can consider an Economic Operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by. the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively. A list of bodies subject. to Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy can be viewed at www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/listpublicb… ↗. which-ni-publicprocurement-. policy-applies..

Review and risk notes
Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: This procurement.. is governed. by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and provides for economic operators who have. suffered, or who risk suffering,.. loss, or damage, as a consequence of an alleged breach. of the duty owed in accordance with Regulation 91 to start proceedings in the.. High. Court. A standstill period will commence at the point information on the award of the. contract is communicated to tenderers... That. notification will provide information on the. award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days,... provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the. contract is entered into. Any proceedings relating. to.. any perceived non-compliance with. the relevant law must be started within 30 days, beginning with the date when the. economic. operator. first knew, or ought to have known that grounds for starting the. proceedings had arisen. (A court may extend the time limit to 3. months,.. where the court. considers that there is a good reason for doing so).

Publisher note: The Authority expressly reserves the right (a) not to award any Contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by... publication of this notice; (b) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in... no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates participating in this competition. Contracts awarded as.. a result of this procurement process shall be considered as a contract made in Northern Ireland and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction.. of the Northern Ireland Courts. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any contracts as a result of this competition... The process may be terminated or suspended at any time without cost or liability to the Contracting Authority. While it intends to do so,.. the Contracting Authority does not bind itself or others to enter into any contract arising out of the procedures envisaged by this notice... No contractual rights expressed or implied arise out of the notice or procedures envisaged by it. The Contracting Authority reserves the.. right to vary its requirements and the procedures relating to the conduct of the award process. The Contracting Authority shall disqualify.. any Economic Operator which is ineligible under Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) (subject to any overriding public.. interest requirement) and reserves the right to disqualify any organisation which: (a) Provides information or confirmations which later.. prove to be untrue or incorrect; (b) Does not supply the information within the timescale required by this notice or by the Invitation.. to Tender Documentation or as otherwise required during the process. Instructions on how to submit a tender; - Suppliers must be.. registered on the Contracting Authorities e-procurement portal, eTendersNI available on the following link: https://etendersni.gov.uk/.. epps/home.do All suppliers should follow the instructions on how to submit a tender within the Introduction and Brief Explanation.. document held within the documents area for this procurement on the eTendersNI portal.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: eTendersNI · Who buys & how to bid on eTendersNI
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free Northern Ireland registration

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5386646 ↗

Submission deadline
2 Aug 2024, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
10 Jul 2024, 15:30 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

10 Jul 2024 → 17 Feb 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Bids opened
    10 Jul 2024, 15:30 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    2 Aug 2024, 15:00 BST
  3. Bids must remain valid until
    10 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Notice published251 days ago
    17 Feb 2026, 11:22 GMT

Notice history

2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Jul 2024
  1. Deadline moved to 2 Aug 2024, 15:00 BST
    9 Jul 2024, 13:59 BST
    +23 days · was 10 Jul 2024, 15:00 BST
  2. Status changed to complete
    17 Feb 2026, 11:22 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineTime limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate. · IV.2.2)10 Jul 20242 Aug 2024+23 d

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £5,091,3651 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 3
Contracts signed 1latest 5 Dec 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
SECURITY CONTRACT INFORMATION WITHHELDContract£5,091,365 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract · SECURITY CONTRACT INFORMATION WITHHELD

    Signed
    5 Dec 2024
    Value
    £5,091,365
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
3bids · 3 electronic · 1 from abroad0——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Northern Ireland Policing Board

Contracting authorityPublic bodyMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsPublic order and safety 31 Clarendon Dock, BELFAST, UK, BT1 3BGContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Department of Finance, Central Procurement Directorate Procurement Operations BranchReview body BelfastContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • SECURITY CONTRACT INFORMATION WITHHELDAwarded supplier SECURITY CONTRACT INFORMATION WITHHELD, UKContact email

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