National Software & Associated Services Framework

Contract summary

Industry

• Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £50,000,000

Procurement reference

Y17038

Published date

7 December 2016

Closing date

19 December 2016

Contract start date

1 February 2017

Contract end date

31 January 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England
covering an area of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of
circa £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.5m. The Council provides
a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents,
operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.
Commercial Services is one of the largest trading organisations of its kind in
Europe with a turnover in excess of £600 million and employing over 700 people
from its base in Kent. Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores
department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown
organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services
to other publicly funded organisations. These include local government,
education establishments, the care sector and the emergency services.
KCS Professional Services, is a trading unit of Commercial Services and
provides a purchasing, warehousing and distribution service to a wide ranging
customer base within local government and associated public bodies in Kent,
neighbouring counties and across the UK.
The Central Buying Consortium (CBC) is a group of County, Borough and City
Councils. The purpose of whichis to improve the effectiveness, by
co-ordination, of local authority purchasing with the object of effecting
savings in public expenditure for the benefit of its members. CBC procures
approximately £750m goods and services per annum.
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives
and Regulations, Kent County Council via KCS Professional Services wishes to
create a National Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the supply and
delivery of Software Products & Associated Services.
The procurement process adopted by the Contracting Authority is based upon the
'Open' Procedure, as detailed in the 'Public Contract Regulations 2015'.

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More information

Additional text

This opportunity will be completed electronically via ProContract, a site run
by Due North. Interested organisations should go to
www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk to register and express interest. To express
interest select 'Current Opportunities', from the 'Organisation' drop down box
select 'Commercial Services', click search and select the appropriate
opportunity. Once you have successfully expressed interest via the portal you
will be sent an email directing you to the ProContract site from which you will
be able to access and download the invitation to tender documentation and any
other relevant information. This email should be retained, as it will contain
your direct link to the ProContract portal, for information purposes only the
link is www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/procontract/supplier.nsf DO NOT USE THIS
LINK NOW.

Tenderers should also note that final submissions must be made via ProContract,
no other submission route is permitted. Failure to follow this path will
result in the tender submission being disregarded.

ALL DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD VIA
THE PROCONTRACT PORTAL FROM THE OUTSET. Please ensure you are able to download
all files immediately after accessing the ProContract portal.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Commercial Services - Procurement

Address

1 Abbey Wood Road
Kings Hill
ME19 4YT
England

Email

psg@commercialservices.org.uk