Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Electoral Services to the Returning Officer
Authority: Aberdeen City Council (Local council)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAberdeen City Council is acting as a central purchasing body for the purpose of procuring a Single Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Electoral Services for the Returning Officer for itself, Aberdeenshire Council and Highland Council. Each Council will enter into seperate call-off contracts with the succesful suppliers as and when any services are required.
CPV: Bespoke printed matter · Electoral forms · Printing and related services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 2 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Acting as a Central Purchasing body on behalf of itself, Aberdeenshire Council and…Awarded
Acting as a Central Purchasing body on behalf of itself, Aberdeenshire Council and Highland Council, Aberdeen City Council are procuring a Single Supplier Framework for the provision of Electoral Services to the Returning Officer.
The Framework Agreement is for the provision of the following services as required by each Council:
- The design, production, printing, packaging and issuing of pollcasrds, postal poll cards, proxy poll cards and proxy postal poll cards
- The design, production, printing, packaing and issuing of Postal Voting Packs
The printing of all ordinary and tendered ballot papers
- Provide a managed Postal Vote service, including opening, scanning, matching and extracting postal vote documents for the entire duration of the post vote opening project
- Provision of Electronic Voting and Counting System Solution(s)
- Provision of a Counting System
Further details of all services to be provided are detailed in the Invitation to Tender documentation.
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 questions as given in Appendix 5: 70%
- price: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality questions as given in Appendix 5: 70%
- Price: 30%
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Provision of Electoral Services to the Returning Officer” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
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
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Sept 2023, 11:26 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Sept 2023, 11:26 BST
- Authority reference
000-YKCB2714- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-027600- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0401e5Find a Tender
Publisher note: (SC Ref:745146)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 027600-2023-1
- Signed
- 14 Sept 2023
- Value
- £1,100,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 2 from abroad | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Aberdeenshire CouncilContracting authority
- The Highland CouncilContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Aberdeen Sherrif CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Idox Software LtdFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.