Published date: 18 May 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 6 May 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Traffic-monitoring equipment - 34970000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£256,350

Procurement reference

HCC2012103

Published date

18 May 2021

Closing date

6 May 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

7 May 2021

Contract end date

6 May 2026

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)

The opportunity was not advertised, because for example only one supplier is capable of delivering the requirement, or due to extreme urgency brought about by unforeseen events.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This Award Notice is being published to inform of an award of a contract.

Hertfordshire County Council is relying on regulation 32(5)(b) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 in making this award without prior publication.

A contract was awarded in July 2020 to supply and install intelligent ANPR enabled sensors to monitor vehicle usage of road space, and to provide 5 years of data collection and system support. Additional cameras were required to widen the network where the data is captured in order to create a better and stronger digital twin of the business park that includes all incoming and outgoing movements.

The additional purchase brings the total value of both orders to £256,350 which surpasses the Public Contract Regulations 2015 threshold, and therefore legislative exemption under Reg 32 (5)(b) of EU procurement regulations is being relied upon. This contract is for an extension of existing supplies where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance.

Technical difficulties would arise when using sensors from two or more different manufacturers as it wouldn't be possible to capture the Origin - Destination route and duration (the 'Journey Time' metrics).

On an operational level, HCC would have to use more than one supplier dashboard that each display the data captured. Not being able to visualise the data in one place is counterproductive and would affect the quality of the assessments.
From a maintenance perspective, using different suppliers would likely have resulted in at least more than one unit at each location in order to obtain the same data therefore increasing the costs of repair or replacement in case of a failure.

Award information

Awarded date

7 May 2021

Contract start date

7 May 2021

Contract end date

6 May 2026

Total value of contract

£256,350

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Vivacity Labs Limited

Address

International House 24
Holborn Viaduct,
City of London, London, England,
EC1A 2BN

Reference

Companies House number: 09924516

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

PEGS LANE
HERTFORD
SG138DQ
England

Telephone

01992 555121 ext 25121

Email

strategic.procurement@hertfordshire.gov.uk