Official UK procurement notice
TEO - EU Exit Advertising and Public Information campaign
Authority: The Executive Office
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNo description was published on the notice. See the official documents.
CPV: Advertising services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Executive Office (TEO) wishes to appoint a Contractor to deliver an advertising…
The Executive Office (TEO) wishes to appoint a Contractor to deliver an advertising and public
information campaign, to support communication activity across the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS), in the event of the UK leaving
the EU without an agreed EU Exit deal. A public information campaign has been developed by the UK Government, however a need
for targeted and detailed NI specific communications will exist. The campaign will aim to: Raise awareness of what EU exit means for
Northern Ireland; Target key stakeholders with relevant information; and where possible, provide reassurance to all citizens. The contract
duration is 19 months and it is anticipated this Contract will commence in September 2019. The Contracting Authority are proceeding
with a reduced time limit for this tender competition due to the urgency and nature of this requirement.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Apr 2021, 13:35 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Apr 2021, 13:35 BST
- Authority reference
ID2283215- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-007699- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02a584Find a Tender
- Review procedure
The UK does not have any special review body with responsibility for appeal/.. mediation procedures in public procurement competitions. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division,.. to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended)
Publisher note: Contract Monitoring. The successful Contractor’s performance on this Contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly.. monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 - Contract Management - Procedures and Principles). Contractors not delivering.. on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach.. satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach. satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs. and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave. professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and this Contract may be terminated. A.. central register of such Notices for supplies and services contracts will be maintained and published on the CPD website. Any contractor.. in receipt of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period of three.. years from the date of issue of the Notice. It may also result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being.. undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTDSME | £750,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 007699-2021-ID2283215-1 · ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTDSME
- Signed
- 10 Sept 2019
- Value
- £750,000
- Status
- active
- Change Original contract end date was 31 March 2021. Modified end date is now 31 Dec 2021 reasons for this are stated below., Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: EU Exit Trade Deal was reached on 24 December 2020. As this was only a week before the end of the Transition period, the UK and the EU agreed a number of mitigations to help ease business and supply chain disruption in Northern Ireland ports on 1 January 2021. When the Transition period ended on 1 January 2021 it created a new trade and customs border between the EU and Great Britain. The first of these periods was set to expire at the end of March 2021, however the UK government announced that it will extend the grace period until October. The Executive Office had been using the contract for paid-for advertising to communicate to NI citizens these changes. The steps taken by the UK Government at the beginning of March were unforeseen and it is not clear how the situation will develop over the coming weeks and months. With this uncertainty there is a need to extend the existing contract to the end of 2021 to cover the new grace periods.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation proceduresReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTDAwarded supplier
- ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.