Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name and addresses

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions

I.5) Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.2) Description

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.2) Administrative information

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: SP-018-029

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

V.2 Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

25/07/2019

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: : 13 888 444.00  GBP

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Value or proportion likely to be subcontracted to third parties

Proportion: 75 %

Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:

Applications services to be subcontracted to Mphasis UK Ltd

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information

With reference to Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, Regulation 83, see below:

1) (a) the name and address of the contracting authority, the subject-matter and value of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system;

Refer to Section I.1), II.1.4) and II.1.7);

(b) where applicable, the results of the qualitative selection and reduction of numbers pursuant to Regulations 66 (reduction of the number of otherwise qualified candidates to be invited to participate) and 67 (contract award criteria), namely:

(i) the names of the selected candidates or tenderers and the reasons for their selection: Capita Business Services Limited, Diona UK Ltd, EntServ UK Limited (trading as DXC) and IBM UK Ltd were the selected candidates due to submitting an EPSD appropriately showing their ability to provide the services required in relation to the SPM software to be developed during the term of the contract;

(ii) the names of the candidates or tenderers rejected and the reasons for their rejection: no candidates were rejected during the selection stage;

(c) the reasons for the rejection of any tenders found to be abnormally low: no tenders were rejected on the basis of being abnormally low.

(d) the name of the successful tenderer and the reasons why its tender was selected: EntServe UK Ltd were the successful tenderer due to having the the best price, quality ratio;

(e) where known by the contracting authority:

(i) the share (if any) of the contract or framework agreement which the successful tenderer intends to subcontract to third parties: refer to Section V.2.5);

(ii) the names of the main contractor’s subcontractors (if any): refer to Section V.2.5);

(f) for competitive procedures with negotiation and competitive dialogues, the circumstances as laid down in Regulation 27 (choice of procedures) which justify the use of those procedures: not applicable;

(g) for negotiated procedures without prior publication, the circumstances referred to in Regulation 33 (use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication) which justify the use of this procedure: not applicable;

(h) where applicable, the reasons why the contracting authority has decided not to award a contract or framework agreement or to establish a dynamic purchasing system: not applicable;

(i) where applicable, the reasons why means of communication other than electronic means have been used for the submission of tenders and not applicable;

(j) where applicable, conflicts of interests detected and subsequent measures taken.

A potential conflict of interest was identified in respect of a candidate at the selection stage and was addressed at the time by the provision of relevant assurances and undertakings. No conflict of interest actually arose, and the candidate subsequently withdrew from the process for other reasons.

Scottish Government reserves the right to place additional work, that will not be stipulated in the original statement of requirement, on the basis that the scope of the new services will consist of the repetition of similar services performed by the supplier to whom is awarded the contract. Such services will be in conformity with the basic project which the original contract is awarded.

The extent of the additional services will be limited to services required to support the delivery of benefits and will be a repetition of similar services performed by the supplier to whom is awarded the contract.

The conditions whereby further services would be called upon are if it is identified that further development of Social program management (SPM) or service related to the support and or maintenance of SPM is required.

The total cost of the additional work will not exceed 100 % of the original contract value.

(SC Ref:594242)

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

13/08/2019