Network Products and Services Contract
Fife College requires a Contract to allow the purchase and maintenance of network products and services for the College’s local, wireless and wide area networks.
United Kingdom-Dunfermline: Networks
2016/S 237-431395
Contract notice
Supplies
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Pittsburgh Road
Dunfermline
KY11 8DY
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1383845116
E-mail: procurement@fife.ac.uk
NUTS code: UKM22
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA10523
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Network Products and Services.
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Fife College requires a Contract to allow the purchase and maintenance of network products and services for the College’s local, wireless and wide area networks.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Fife.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Fife College requires a Contract to allow the purchase and maintenance of network products and services for the College’s local, wireless and wide area networks.
The purpose of this Contract is for the College to establish a best value, consistent method of purchasing and maintaining network products and relevant services. The network products can be hardware or software based. Such products include, but are not limited to, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Hyper-Converged Products, Wireless Controllers, Wireless Access Points, Network Virtual Appliances or Packaged Installers, Gateway Security, Network Access Control, Network Security, Logging and Reporting and Content Filtering etc. This also includes relevant cloud-based or otherwise hosted network products and subscription services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
2x 1 year extensions at the sole discretion of Fife College.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.14)Additional information
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
ESPD Question ref 4A.1: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
ESPD Question ref 4A.2: Where it is required, within a bidder’s country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service.
Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
Bidders must complete the European Single Procurement Document (Scotland). There are a number of conditions
for participation/minimum requirements which are set out in the procurement documents. Details of these conditions, as well as the evaluation
process and scoring methodology can be found in the procurement documents (Invitation To Tender), which can
be downloaded after you note your interest on Public Contracts Scotland.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in
regulation 8 and 9 of the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016.
ESPD Question reference 4B.1.1: Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of 300,000 GBP for the last 2 years.
ESPD Question reference 4B.3: Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
ESPD Question reference 4B.5.1: It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 5 000 000 GBP
Public Liability Insurance = 5 000 000 GBP
Professional Indemnity Insurance = 1 000 000 GBP
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:
You must be able to attend Fife College sites, listed in Annex A of the Specification, within 4 hours for priority calls requiring an engineer service call-out.
Your submission will be excluded from further participation in this procurement if you/sub-contractor(s) cannot attend onsite to Fife College sites within 4 hours for priority calls requiring engineer service call-out.
Evaluation of criterion will be based on attendance at Halbeath Site (KY11 8DY).
III.2.3)Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
5-7 years.
VI.2)Information about electronic workflows
VI.3)Additional information:
ESPD Part IV Sections C-E are not applicable to this procurement exercise.
ESPD Part V is not applicable to this procurement exercise.
Award Criteria questions can be found in the ITT together with the weightings and evaluation criteria.
Fife College does not commit to letting a Contract for all or any of the requirements listed.
Fife College will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing interest in or tendering for this contract.
Any Contract awarded shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland and both parties submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts.
As part of Fife College’s responsibilities under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, the College may be required to disclose information provided by you in relation to this requirement, to anyone who makes a request under the act.
Fife College provides no guarantee of the volume or value of business that will be procured from the Contract throughout its duration.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site athttp://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=472549.
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available athttp://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause in this contract.
(SC Ref:472549)
Download the ESPD document here: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=472549
VI.4.1)Review body
Pittsburgh Road
Dunfermline
KY11 8DY
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 8442480115
E-mail: procurement@fife.ac.ukInternet address:http://www.fife.ac.uk
VI.4.3)Review procedure
Fife College will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day Standstill Period after notification to unsuccessful applicants of the award decision.
The period allows unsuccessful suppliers to seek a debriefing from Fife College before the Contract is entered into and to provide an opportunity to seek to challenge the award decision before it is implemented.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: