Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Big Lottery Fund
1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
UK
Contact person: Procurement Manager
Telephone: +44 2072111960
E-mail: procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-title/59B878T52U
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
http://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Evaluation-consultancy-services./59B878T52U
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Other: Non Departmental Public Body
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Place-based Social Action Evaluation- BIG001-0871
Reference number: BIG001-0871
II.1.2) Main CPV code
79419000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Fund and DCMS are seeking to appoint an evaluator to measure the impact of the programme in places, to generate and share key learnings and to build evaluation capacity in places.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
200 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
UNITED KINGDOM.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Fund and DCMS are seeking to appoint an evaluator to measure the impact of the programme in places, to generate and share key learnings and to build evaluation capacity in Places.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Criteria below:
Quality criterion: Provide clear & realistic methodology, inc. the deployment of resources & budget to deliver the services & staff levels that responds to the requirements
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Detail proposed delivery team, how they will be managed, skills available and how these are relevant, what roles they will play and resource allocations.
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Provide clear, realistic delivery plan & timeline that responds to the objectives & constraints, inv. tasks for each phase, roles & responsibilities of memeber of team & management arrangements.
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Detail your appraoch to quality assurance for the service and how you will monitor quality on an ongoing basis, including Equality and Diversity considerations
/ Weighting: 10
Quality criterion: Explain how you will ensure the learning is shared and embedded in the places and how you will support them to maximise implementation of best practice to improvie their own project delivery.
/ Weighting: 10
Quality criterion: Identify/ analyse the main risks to the delivery of this contract to time & budget & your proposals for mitigating/managing them
/ Weighting: 10
Cost criterion: The Tender with the lowest fixed cost price for undertaking the Tender TAsk will receive 10 marks, all other tenders will receive a proportion of the 10 marks available
/ Weighting: 10
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
200 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 96
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
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 III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
List and brief description of conditions:
Refer to the ITT for full specification.
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
III.2.2) Contract performance conditions
Refer to the ITT for full specification.
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.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
26/01/2018
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 4 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
26/01/2018
Local time: 13:00
Information about authorised persons and opening procedure:
Bids will be opened (electronically) and logged by the procurement team. The evaluation panel will then carry out the review.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
— https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Evaluation-consultancy-services./59B878T52U
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
— https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/59B878T52U
GO Reference: GO-20171220-PRO-11606261.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Big lottery Fund
1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
UK
E-mail: procurement@biglotteryfund.org.uk
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The Contracting Authority will incorporate a standstill period of 10 calendar days at the point the information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. Further information is set out in the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 (as amended).
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/12/2017