Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
The Arts Council of England trading as Arts Council England
21 Bloomsbury St, Bloomsbury,
London
WC1B 3HF
UK
Contact person: Zobair Mehmood
Telephone: +44 1619344317
E-mail: procurement.services@artscouncil.org.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: https://public.bravosolution.co.uk/artscouncil/web/login.html
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Recreation, culture and religion
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Consumer Insight Toolkit
Reference number: ACE 073 ITT
II.1.2) Main CPV code
73000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Arts Council England are seeking to procure a service provider (which may be an individual provider or a joint venture comprising of a number of providers, or a prime contractor that may sub-contract certain elements of the services) to develop and implement a “consumer insight toolkit” that will provide national portfolio organisations and Arts Council England with insight into what audiences, participants, peers, artists and creative practitioners think about the work being produced by national portfolio organisations across the 2018-2022 investment period.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
1 916 666.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKC
UKD
UKE
UKF
UKG
UKH
UKI
UKJ
UKK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
A service provider to develop and implement a “Consumer Insight Toolkit” that will provide national portfolio organisations and Arts Council England with insight into what audiences, participants, peers, artists and creative practitioners think about the work being produced by national portfolio organisations across the 2018-2022 investment period. This will include the provision of 2 key elements:
i) provision of a digital platform, and
ii) consultancy and support services.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical Score (Quality)
/ Weighting: 80 %
Cost criterion: Commercial (Price)
/ Weighting: 20 %
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
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:
2018/S 008-013695
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: ACE 073 ITT
Title: Consumer Insight Toolkit
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
03/07/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 3
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Counting What Counts Limited
82b High Street, Sawston
Cambridge
CB22 3HJ
UK
E-mail: support@culturecounts.cc
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://culturecounts.cc/uk/
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 1 916 666.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
United Kingdom
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The High Court
The Royal Courts of Justice
London
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The public contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the requirements under those regulations to take action in the High Court of England and Wales.
In general, Regulation 92 requires that proceedings must be started within 30 days beginning with the date when the economic operator first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen.
Please refer to the details of these Regulations (including Chapter 6 in particular) for more details.
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Royal Court of Justice
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
27/07/2018