Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
EDUCATION AUTHORITY
40 Academy Street
Belfast
BT1 2NQ
UK
Contact person: Education Authority
E-mail: ICT.Procure@eani.org.uk
NUTS: UKN
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
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
ICT-23-017 Data Backup Solution
Reference number: ICT-23-017
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
ICT-23-017 Data Backup Solution covering all EA locations throughout Northern Ireland.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
199 319.71
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKN
Main site or place of performance:
This is a secondary competition which has been run from Framework RM6098 Lot 6, covering all EA locations throughout Northern Ireland.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
A Backup Solution is a fundamental requirement within any ICT infrastructure. It ensures that business critical data, applications and servers can be restored after accidental deletion, system changes or hardware failure. It is essential that a reliable backup system is in place to mitigate the risk of data loss and downtime for users. A backup system is essential to underpin any kind of Disaster Recovery (DR) procedure for the Education Authority.
EANI backup and DR strategy is currently satisfied by the deployment of Quest Rapid Recovery on multiple sites backing up to a local backup appliance, and replicating to a central DR location.
The Education Authority is dependent on a wide range of ICT services provided by infrastructure located in distributed data centres, server rooms, and comms rooms spread across multiple EA sites. Access to the data contained on EA provided systems is business critical to a high proportion of EA staff. It is essential therefore that data is backed up securely, on resilient reliable systems.
EA's Networks & Infrastructure service have produced a technical strategy including a solutions roadmap, which details the requirements, design and architecture of systems which will most effectively address the need to protect against cyber threats and other risks, while continuing with the ongoing process of consolidation and optimisation of all ICT systems.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Social Value
/ Weighting: 10%
Price
/ Weighting:
90%
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
This contract is not an award without prior notice.
This is a secondary competition from the original framework RM6098 Lot 6.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: ICT-23-017
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
13/02/2024
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES PLC
James House, Warwick Road
Birmingham
B11 2LE
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 199 319.71
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
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 PCR 2015
Belfast
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
21/02/2024