CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

This Framework is being tendered on behalf of the following organisations and their members: Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) http://www.supc.ac.uk/engage/our-members/our-members ; North East Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members ; North West Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members ; London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) http://www.lupc.ac.uk/list-of-members.html ; Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members ; Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW) http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

Purchase		Rent		Lease
Hire-purchase		Combination of these

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

SUPC is acting as lead organisation on behalf of its members and also for members of the Higher Education Purchasing Consortium for Wales (HEPCW), the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), the North-West Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC), the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) and APUC Limited (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges). SUPC is not acting as an agent in the legal sense on behalf of participating organisations.

A full list of the participating Consortia members are available on the Consortia websites: www.supc.ac.uk ; www.lupc.ac.uk ; http://neupc.procureweb.ac.uk/ ; www.nwupc.ac.uk ; http://hepcw.procureweb.ac.uk/ ; http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk

This framework is for the provision of Servers, Storage and Solutions, including virtual appliances, support and maintenance and warranty extensions, software defined storage, backup solutions. It also includes compute and server related solutions, converged, hyper-converged, HPC and associated infrastructure.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

one lot only

one or more lots

all lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

Each contractor to be joint and severally bound for the performance of the contract.

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

As per the Invitation to Tender and associated documentation.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

2016/2

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

It is anticipated that some of the future call-off contracts will be part funded from external streams including European Union (EU) funding (ERDF/ESF) and others. All funding accessed will be fully ERDF compliant in relation to Education Framework and funding conditions.

This agreement will be open to universities and their partners regardless of whether or not they are to be defined as contracting authorities for the purpose of PCR 2015.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Servers including virtual appliances, software support, maintenance and warranty extensions.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

Compute Servers, virtual appliances, software support, maintenance and warranty.

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Storage hardware including virtual appliances, software support and maintenance and warranty.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

Storage hardware and virtual appliances, software defined storage inclusive of object storage, backup solutions, software support and maintenance and warranty extensions.

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Solutions in the compute, servers and storage arena including but not limited to converged, hyper-converged and HPC solutions.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

Solutions in the compute, servers and storage arena including but not limited to converged, hyper-converged and HPC solutions

This lot is sub divided into 2 lots:

Lot 3a — Solutions including converged, hyper-converged, hybrid and other solutions excluding high performance computing and data intensive computing;

Lot 3b — High performance computing and data intensive computing only.

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Compute and storage solutions including HPC, DIC, converged, hyper-converged and other solutions.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

Compute and storage solutions covering HPC, DIC, converged, hyper-converged and other solutions including network interconnects, software, service and maintenance and warranty.

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots