Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Cardiff University
Procurement Services, McKenzie House, 30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff
CF24 0DE
UK
Contact person: Darren Evans
Telephone: +44 2920879648
E-mail: buyline@cardiff.ac.uk
NUTS: UKL
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.cardiff.ac.uk/purch/
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0258
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
HPE Mentor
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72212190
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Office 365 Desktop mentor/self-help product
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL22
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Cardiff University requires a product to assist its staff and students to leverage the capabilities of the Microsoft Office 365 suite and associated products. As a minimum, this must include Office 2016 (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Skype for Business, One Drive, Mail, Calendar and Contacts. The product must already be in existence and already in use in a meaningful way in at least one other organisation of at least a similar size & scale (40,000). The Office 365 content must be regularly updated to keep reasonable pace with MIcrosofts development of Office 365 and associated products. The product must be available for deployment for the next academic year.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: as per procurement docs
/ Weighting: 100
Price
/ Weighting:
0
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive
Explanation
Cardiff University has researched the market place and the product identified is believed to be the only product of its kind that covers the desired Microsoft Office 365 modules and is already in use by other organisations that are of a similar or larger scale than Cardiff University. Award Criteria This is the most economically advantageous in terms of the ability to comprehensively meet the specification.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2017/S 126-257484
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: N/a
A contract/lot is awarded:
No
V.1 Information on non-award
The contract/lot is not awarded
Other reasons (discontinuation of procedure)
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
(WA Ref:107444)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Cardiff University
Procurement Services, McKenzie House, 30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff
CF24 0DE
UK
Telephone: +44 2920879648
Internet address(es)
URL: www.cardiff.ac.uk/purch/
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
19/01/2021