Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
FSCS
15 St. Botolph Street, United Kingdom
London
EC3A 7QU
UK
Contact person: Procurement
E-mail: procurement@fscs.org.uk
NUTS: UKI4
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.fscs.org.uk
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Secure Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services
Reference number: FSCS326
II.1.2) Main CPV code
66000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The FSCS is seeking to appoint 2 service providers to provide secure cheque printing and pay-out services to include, implementation services as part of setting up the service, standby services to run from inception until expiry of contract and payment services as required during the term of the contract.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
277 681.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
FSCS is seeking to award contracts to 2 individual service-providers for the provision of secure cheque printing and mailing services comprising the following:
Implementation services:
— put in place standby and payment services capable of anytime short notice invocation,
— supplier project management of design, including end to end testing, through to implementation of stand by service.
Stand by services:
— cheque base-stock and envelope stock production and storage capability, or outsource/sub-contract facilities for same,
— security around plant, stock and process consistent with sensitive materials and mail handling, and accredited.
Cheque production.
Payment services:
— printing, enclosing and dispatching cheques to the required standards within the required timeframes,
— receiving data for up to 2 000 000 records on Day 1, and ensuring all records are dispatched by last post before the end of Day 4 (exceptions apply to non-Business days),
— receipt/transmission of data via via Secure File Transfer (SFTP), a secure method over the Internet (For example SFTP, Portal or website secured by TLS 1.2 or higher), error handling and management information reporting over invocation period via same protocol,
— returned mail handling and reporting facility.
Each service contract of secure cheque provider services will be the same and it is intention that FSCS will award the primary service provider contract to the tenderer having submitted the most economically advantageous tender, then secondary service provider to tenderer of the second most economically advantageous tender.
The payment services work will be allocated to the service providers on a tiered basis so that primary service provider is preferred and where the primary service does not have enough capacity then work will be given to secondary provider.
Notwithstanding paragraph above FSCS will from time to time issue Payment Service Orders (PSOs) to the secondary provider for the purposes of testing secondary provider’s readiness.
Both primary and secondary providers are required to provide implementation services and standby services without as relevant throughout the term of the contract.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 70
Price
/ Weighting:
30
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 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:
2018/S 202-459780
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: FSCS326
Title: Secure Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
16/04/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Integrity Print Ltd
First Avenue, Westfield Trading Estate, Midsomer Norton, Bath, BA3 4BS, United Kingdom
Bath
UK
NUTS: UKK1
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Adare SEC Ltd
Leicester
UK
NUTS: UKF21
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 188 500.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: FSCS326
Title: Secure Cheque Printing and Payment Services
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
10/09/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Adare SEC Ltd
Leicester
UK
NUTS: UKF21
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 89 181.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Royal Courts of Justice
London
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
22/11/2019