Official UK procurement notice
Northern Ireland Assembly Commission - Provision of Tests and Assessment Exercises for Recruitment Competitions - BR-086-2023
Authority: Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Assembly Commission is seeking to appoint a supplier who can supply recruitment tests and assessment exercises to support the recruitment and selection process for permanent staff. The Assembly Commission’s Recruitment and Selection Framework sets out a variety of selection options to meet recruitment needs with assessments tailored for specific roles to find the right person for the role, improving organisational performance and increasing diversity and inclusion. Key Activity 1: Provision of Online Tests - used in high volume competitions as a shortlisting tool. Key Activity 2: Assessment Exercises - as part of the selection process to assess different aspects of the applicants’ skills including scoring the exercise and provision of feedback on the performance of the applicant in the assessment exercise. These off-the-shelf assessments and tests must be equality assessed to ensure they do not have any adverse impact on equality grounds including community background, gender, age or disability.
CPV: Recruitment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£140,000
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 (2)
- Quality: 40%
- Cost: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 40
- Cost: 60
- Technical & professional ability
SC1 Previous Relevant Experience. SC2 Quality Management.. SC3 Information Security Management.
- 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- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 16 Nov 2023, 15:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Nov 2023, 15:05 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 18 Dec 2023 – …
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-033963- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-041a81Find a Tender
- Performance terms
The Contractor’s performance will be monitored periodically by the Human Resources Recruitment Team's Contract Manager and measured at the end of each recruitment competition against the agreed Key Performance Indicators as detailed in the Schedule 5 Specification..
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 18 Dec 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 18 Dec 2023, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
16 Nov 2023 → 17 Mar 2024 · 4 dates- Notice published16 Nov 2023, 15:05 GMT
- Submission deadline18 Dec 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened18 Dec 2023, 15:30 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until17 Mar 2024, 23:59 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NoneReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.