Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Health and Safety Executive
Redgrave Court, Merton Road
Bootle
L20 7HS
UK
E-mail: tenders@hse.gov.uk
NUTS: UKD73
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.hse.gov.uk/
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hse
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hse
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hse
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
National or federal agency/office
I.5) Main activity
Other: Regulator of health and safety in the workplace
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Provision of a Discovering Safety: Safety Risk Library for Construction
Reference number: HSE/T3626
II.1.2) Main CPV code
73000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
HSE are currently 18 months in to a five year programme of work, the Discovering Safety programme (DSP), supported by a research grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
The primary aim of the research programme is to understand how to access and use routine safety and health data in new ways to provide a new approach to improving performance by applying novel data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in health and safety contexts.
The vision for the discovering safety programme is to deliver step change improvements in global health and safety performance through better analytic exploitation of routine health and safety data.
The focus of this invitation to tender is for two of the construction industry use cases, the construction health and safety risk library and leading indicators for health and safety performance assessment.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
990 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
Yes
Tenders may be submitted for one lot only
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: 2
II.2) Description
Lot No: 1
II.2.1) Title
Use Case 1: Construction Health and Safety Risks Library
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
73000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD73
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Phase 1 work ended with a limited piloting of the prototype tool developed in order to demonstrate proof of concept to the discovering safety programme board.
Broad ambitions for phase 2
With respect to phase 2 work, the DSP team wish to:
1) Further develop the prototype tool from Phase 1, specifically, to widen out its scope to include other categories of projects, work activities and categories of risks;
2) Further pilot the tool across select parts of industry (both in the UK and internationally); and
3) Explore the viability of creating a similar tool able to serve up health and safety knowledge to a project for use by contractors (i.e. once construction works have actually started).
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
510 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 19
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:
Yes
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
Lot No: 2
II.2.1) Title
Use Case 2: Leading Indicators for Health and Safety Performance Assessment
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
73000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD73
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Broad ambitions for Phase 2
In phase 2 of the DSP, the DSP team wish to work with construction organisations more directly, to consider how their routine health and safety data could be put to better use, using the framework developed in phase 1 as a useful reference. The aim is to create digital solutions that organisations could make use of in this context.
Monitoring how a construction site is performing from a health and safety perspective typically forms an important part of its health and safety management arrangements. This tends to be done by collating agreed key performance indicator metrics derived from the various sources of routine health and safety data generated and reporting back to managers and supervisors using dashboards and scorecards. As a rule, the primary focus of such reporting tends to be around relatively simple, high level health and safety related concepts that can be easily quantified. In the main, this involves working with pre-structured data, i.e. counts, rates or categorical data. Aspects of operations captured in free text narratives, such as accident reports, safety observations and inspection, audit and investigation findings, tend to be much less widely used in the process.
The health and safety digital technology market has numerous products aimed at supporting organisations in the collection and descriptive analysis of operational KPI’s, including those linked to safety related processes and outcomes. Very often these are linked to, or form an integral part of, an organisation’s enterprise content management system. However, for most of these products, the analytics performed is largely descriptive, to support operational reporting tasks, often through the use of score cards and dashboards. The use of KPI data collected for predictive analytic purposes, to directly inform inspection regimes and other interventions, is much less common.
The broad ambitions for phase 2 work is to explore the viability of bringing together the high level thinking from phase 1 work, along with the capabilities being developed as part of the text mining work, to look to add to the functionality of existing digital solutions. To achieve this, a clear understanding of how the data governance process works on existing projects is regarded to be key, including the sorts of routine health and safety data collected and how it is stored and made use of currently.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
480 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 19
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:
Yes
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.1.2) Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria:
Award criteria as stated in the procurement documents.
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
Award criteria as stated in the procurement documents.
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
III.2.3) Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract
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:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
29/05/2020
Local time: 13:00
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: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
29/05/2020
Local time: 14:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Tommy Johnson — HSE Head of Procurement
Bootle
L20 7HS
UK
E-mail: tenders@hse.gov.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
29/04/2020