Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Northern Ireland Prision Service
Dundonald House, Stormont Estate
Belfast
BT4 3SB
UK
Contact person: SSDAdmin.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
E-mail: SSDAdmin.CPD@Finance-ni.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
Address of the buyer profile: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Public order and safety
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
ID 2302844 DoJ NIPS — Prisoner Portal
Reference number: ID 2302844
II.1.2) Main CPV code
48000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The NI Prison Service require the supply, installation and configuration of a prisoner portal to provide an inmate and staff self-service portal that allows us to digitally engineer current manual and resource intensive processes to achieve efficiencies. This will also enable inmates to improve/maintain their digital skills and empower them to handle their own transactions on-line e.g. placing a tuckshop order interactively which should improve the current service they receive.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
1 955 708.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72200000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKN
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The NI Prison Service require the supply, installation and configuration of a prisoner portal to provide an inmate and staff self-service portal that allows us to digitally engineer current manual and resource intensive processes to achieve efficiencies. This will also enable inmates to improve/maintain their digital skills and empower them to handle their own transactions on-line e.g. placing a tuckshop order interactively which should improve the current service they receive.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Qualitative
/ Weighting: 60
Cost criterion: Quantitative
/ Weighting: 40
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
This contract will be for an initial period of five (5) years, from the commencement date, with one (1) optional extension period of two (2) years i.e. 5 years + [2 years].
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:
2019/S 127-310659
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 1
Title: Contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
22/10/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Due to the sensitive nature of this contract the supplier name will be withheld from publication
United Kingdom
UK
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 1 955 708.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The UK does not have any special review body with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures in public procurement competitions. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015
Belfast
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
CPD comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and have applied a 10 day standstill period. This notification provides full information on the award decision. The standstill period has provided time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
22/11/2019