Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
313
An Lòchran, 10 Inverness Campus
Inverness
IV2 5NA
UK
Telephone: +44 1463245245
E-mail: hieprocurement@hient.co.uk
NUTS: UKM6
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.hie.co.uk
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00313
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local agency/office
I.5) Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Executive Entrepreneurship Masterclasses — Lot 2 Creating and Maintaining Competitive Advantage
Reference number: O158
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80532000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
This is a Contract Award Notice and as such the procurement process has now ended.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) provides a comprehensive but targeted suite of support to assist entrepreneurs accelerate their growth and scale up their businesses.
We are seeking suppliers to provide executive education and support via a suite of masterclasses.
This is one of 4 contracts procured simultaneously, but under separate contract notices (Lots) as follows:
— Lot 1: Structured Steps in the Entrepreneur’s Journey,
— Lot 2: Creating and Maintaining Competitive Advantage,
— Lot 3: Strategic Marketing,
— Lot 4: Strategic Negotiations.
This particular Notice relates to Lot 2 — Creating and Maintaining Competitive Advantage.
The other contracts can be located in the respective PCS/OJEU notices, which were all published on the same date with “Executive Entrepreneurship — Masterclasses” in the contract description.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
120 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80511000
80570000
80430000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM6
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Creating and sustaining a competitive advantage has become increasingly difficult in an ever –changing and dynamic environment. Businesses need to be adept at strategic thinking and strategic analysis and find ways to enhance impact, value and performance. Very importantly, entrepreneurs must have the tools, techniques and skills to execute the strategy.
The masterclass will be held over 2 days in Inverness and will be delivered to a cohort of approximately 25-40 entrepreneurs to ensure the sessions are interactive.
As a minimum, this masterclass will cover the following topics:
— A framework for strategic planning,
— Tools for strategic analysis and techniques to improve strategic thinking,
— Making informed strategic decisions,
— Key Performance Indicators and measuring progress,
— Key success factors to create and maintain a competitive advantage,
— Learning from other businesses – the dos and don’ts.
The contract is anticipated to be awarded for a 27 month period with a maximum budget of between 35 000 GBP and 40 000 GBP per masterclass.
It is estimated that the total value of these services (over the lifetime of the contract) may be 120 000 GBP and this is the figure which has been used in II.1.7.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Main Speaker/Educator (Pass/Fail)
/ Weighting: 30
Quality criterion: Delivery team
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Delivery methodology
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Added value & Innovation
/ Weighting: 5
Price
/ Weighting:
25 %
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
HIE reserves the right, on giving reasonable written notice from time to time, to require changes to the Services (whether by way of the removal of Services, the addition of new Services, or increasing or decreasing the Services or specifying the order in which the Services are to be performed or the locations where the Services are to be provided).
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
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 212-440633
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: O158
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19/04/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
The University of Strathclyde
16 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XQ
UK
Telephone: +44 1415484008
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: www.strath.ac.uk
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 120 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Additional info re II.2.11 of this Contract Notice due to restriction in characters in this field:
HIE shall not require any such change other than where it is permitted by Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
In accordance with Regulation 72(1)(a) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, HIE reserves the right to make changes to the volume, scope or location of the Services following a review of the Services by HIE, particularly with regard to demand for each Masterclass and budgetary availability. In particular, HIE reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to request the delivery of more than one Masterclass under one or more Lots up to the maximum budget for a given Lot, subject to the maximum total budget for all Lots, being GBP 300,000.
The applicable budgets are as follows:
GBP 150,000 for Lot 1.
GBP 120,000 for Lots 2-4.
Where HIE determines (at our sole discretion) that demand for Masterclasses under one or more Lots is lower than expected, HIE reserves the right to re-allocate the budget for that Lot to one or more of the other Lots, subject to the maximum total budget of GBP 300,000.
The figures used in II.1.7 & V.2.4 are based on maximum budget per Masterclass of GBP40k for this Lot.
(SC Ref:528661).
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
An Lòchran, 10 Inverness Campus
Inverness
IV2 5NA
UK
Telephone: +44 1463245245
E-mail: hieprocurement@hient.co.uk
Internet address(es)
URL: http://www.hie.co.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/04/2018