Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
National Museums Northern Ireland
Cultra
Holywood
BT18 0EU
UK
Contact person: Louise Thompson
E-mail: louise.thompson@finance-ni.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://nmni.com/home.aspx
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.finance-ni/topics/procurement
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
RID 503934 National Museums NI Provision of Advertising and Design.
Reference number: 503934
II.1.2) Main CPV code
22462000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
National Museums Northern Ireland wishes to appoint an agency to devise and implement fully integrated marketing communications campaigns and to deliver marketing/trading collateral and retail merchandise/point of sale material for the Ulster Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and Ulster American Folk Park. The successful agency will be tasked with delivering all advertising and design requirements outlined above on behalf of National Museums Northern Ireland.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
800 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
79340000
79341000
79341400
79342000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKN
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
National Museums Northern Ireland wishes to appoint an agency to devise and implement fully integrated marketing communications campaigns and to deliver marketing/trading collateral and retail merchandise/point of sale material for the Ulster Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and Ulster American Folk Park. The successful agency will be tasked with delivering all advertising and design requirements outlined above on behalf of National Museums Northern Ireland.
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:
800 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 78
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:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract will initially be for 1½ years with an option to extend for a further 2½ and 2½ years respectively.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
The figure indicated in II.1.5) represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from 200 000 GBP to 800 000 GBP. This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which may result from future operational requirements.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.2) Conditions related to 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:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
13/01/2017
Local time: 15:00
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
Tender must be valid until:
13/04/2017
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
13/01/2017
Local time: 15:30
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of 12 months from the date of issue of the certificate”.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures
UK
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
24/11/2016