Published date: 5 October 2023

Last edited date: 1 November 2023

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Awarded contract (published 11 April 2024)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

GU10 4LH

Value of contract

£60,000

Procurement reference

CR2023/24/020 Rev 1

Published date

5 October 2023

Closing date

16 November 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

27 November 2023

Contract end date

26 November 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Forest Research are seeking proposals for the services described in the attached document titled CR2023/24/020_Infrastructure_Support_and_Maintenance_Service_Procurement_Specification.

Your proposal should include the following:

A proposal to address each of the requirements in the document, a maximum of 15 pages in length.

A presentation to explain how your service is the 'best fit' for this requirement, how you will deliver the service and how you will work with FR.

A minimum of two case studies and references from other business, ideally similar in nature and/or scale to this requirement.

A commercial spreadsheet to include (a) the costs for each of the service elements (including optional, clearly separated) and (b) a rate card for professional services.

A service credit/penalty regime.

Evidence of Cyber Essentials certification.

The weightings below apply to this requirement and ensure the relative importance of each section is correctly reflected in the overall scores applied.

60% - non price criteria - relevance and appropriateness of the solution to our requirements and 'fit' of the bidders way of working and delivery, against FR's own objectives and operational needs.

40% price criteria.

The price score and the non-price score will be combined to give the overall tender score for each tender.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

Please express your interest in this tender in order to allow us to notify you of any questions we may receive and the answers given.

Expressions of interest and/or any questions regarding this ITT should be made by email to lucy.penny@forestresearch.gov.uk no later than 14.00hrs on Friday 13 October 2023.

All bidder's who confirm their interest by the above deadline will receive a Non-Disclosure Agreement ("NDA"), which they are to sign and return. The signing of this NDA will allow bidders to receive further technical information. If you do not express your interest by this date you will not receive the information required to complete the tender.

About the buyer

Contact name

Lucy Penny

Address

620 Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1EJ
United Kingdom

Email

lucy.penny@forestresearch.gov.uk