CONTRACT AWARD 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 Other (Please specify): Public Procurement

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

ICT 2015 Core IT, Printing and Media and Wireless Services.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

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

Primarily in the UK with some limited requirements overseas.

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

HM Treasury as the Contracting Authority is transitioning its ICT supply chain to a new multi-sourced model and away from its current single outsource provider contract. In doing so the ICT 2015 programme will need to procure on a disaggregated basis all of the primary unclassified and restricted ICT services used by the department.

To align with government strategy, increase the ability of SMEs to respond to the Invitation to Tender (“ITT”) and increase value for money, the future ICT services have been broken up into a number of service towers.

This procurement related only to some of the towers in the operating model. The desired outcome of this procurement exercise was to appoint up to three suppliers, one for each of the following Services:

Lot 1 - Tower 1 (Core IT);

Lot 2 - Tower 4 (Printing); and

Lot 3 - Tower 5 (Media and Wireless).

The remaining service towers will be subject to their own competitions using the appropriate Government Frameworks. For clarity the services NOT covered in the scope of this procurement exercise are Tower 2 (Line of Business Applications Services), Tower 3 (WAN Services) and any other ICT services (for example fixed line telephony or existing hosted applications) not covered in the tower model.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

RM1074

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

This Procurement was managed and facilitated by Crown Commercial Service (formerly Government Procurement Service. Referred to as the Agent). The Agent acted on behalf of the Contracting Authority throughout the procurement process.

The procurement of Lot 3 was completed under the Open Procedure.

The procurements of Lots 1 and 2 began under the Open Procedure but no suitable tenders were received for these Lots. Therefore Lots 1 and 2 procurements were completed under the Negotiated Procedure.

The ICT 2015 Core IT (Lot 1), Printing (Lot 2) and Media and Wireless (Lot 3) Services Contracts are formed between the successful Suppliers and the Contracting Authority, not the Agent.

Note that, in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the Agent intends to publish the Selection and Award Questionnaires, Invitation to Tender (ITT) document and the text of any Contract awarded, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Agent. Further information on transparency can be found at:

http://gps.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about-government-procurement-service/transparency-and-accountability/transparency-procurement

The Agent expressly reserved the right

(i) not to award the Contract as a result of the Procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and

(ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will the the Agent or the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by the candidates.

The value provided in Section II.1.4 is an estimate and is based on the 7 year duration including any agreed extension period.

Note: There is no appeal as such to a decision on whether or not to award the Contract but if you wish to make representations to the Agent about the conduct or outcome of the procurement you should email the Agent at the address stated in Section I.1.

A party who feels that there has been a breach of procurement law may apply to the High Court for one of the remedies available under the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

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

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice