Corporate Website Design Contract

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Design of Scottish Water Corporate Website

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Are you a talented and creative web design company? Are you interested in helping Scottish Water redesign our website for our five million customers’ making it easier for them to get information and help on the web or mobile/tablet?

We need a company that can show it can work with Scottish Water and other partners in this design project, can support working in the Scottish Water environment and can meet all the mandatory accreditations and licenses needed.

If you are interested in helping us ensure we meet our Vision of being Trusted to Serve Scotland then we want to hear from you.

Scottish Water are seeking a design agency to work in partnership with them and their website hosting/service delivery partners to do a root and branch redesign of the corporate website. The redesign incorporates a responsive website design, templates, custom graphics, creation of a style guide for users, re-tooling existing bespoke web applications to fit with the look and feel of the new website design and other tasks (further details are available in the attached documentation). The successful agency will be expected to work closely with Scottish Water’s in-house web design team so regular visits to Scottish Water’s offices will be required. The successful agency will be expected to meet criteria surrounding financial, technical and experience requirements.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=438344.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

a) Commodity Codes

b) Delivery Location/Area

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

1.0) the successful applicant has to be comfortable working both with Scottish Water and our hosting/service delivery agency

2.0) In-house delivery of the project – we do not want any of the work sub-contracted away from the design agency

3.0) Mandatory accreditations – the successful applicant must demonstrate and be able to provide examples of detailed understanding and experience of :

3.1) W3C compliance

3.2) Google Analytics, both in practice and coding pages to enable detailed tracking

3.3) CSS/HTML5

3.4) JavaScript

3.5) Graphic design

3.6) Working with large public sector organisations

3.7) Delivering projects on time and in-budget utilising project management techniques, preferably PRINCE2

3.8) provide a dedicated and experienced project manager for the duration of the work who will be a single point of contact for Scottish Water and Eduserv

4.0) the successful applicant must also be able to provide two years accounts

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Dual stage – Candidates must first pass a selection procedure before being invited to tender or negotiate.

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

Deadline for requests to participate
04-04-2016  Time  17:00

Dispatch of invitations to tender
15-04-2016

Estimated award date
15-07-2016

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

EN

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Next Stage – a capability Pre-Qualification Questionnaire will be used to shortlist suppliers to be taken to the tender stage. This will most likely be posted via Public Contracts Scotland – Tenders

(SC Ref:438344)

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice

23-03-2016