Tender for Sell2Wales Procurement Portal
The Welsh Government is seeking to Purchase and develop a New Sell2Wales application based on a commercial off the shelf product.
UK-Pontypridd: procurement software package
2012/S 77-127087
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
The Welsh Ministers
The Welsh Goverment, QED Building, Main Avenue, Treforest Industrial Estate
CF37 5YR Pontypridd
UNITED KINGDOM
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from: See VI.3
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: See VI.3
Education
Environment
General public services
Health
Housing and community amenities
Public order and safety
Recreation, culture and religion
Social protection
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 7: Computer and related services
NUTS code UKL
The current Sell2Wales (S2W) & Buy4Wales (B4W) procurement portal websites have been in operation since 2003 and have been extremely successful in advertising upcoming public sector contracts to a database of suppliers and in allowing the buying organisation to submit OJEU notices.
Key to delivery of the new service will be a portal that:
Make public sector procurement opportunities, within Wales, freely available online, via the internet.
Suppliers are matched up to opportunities and receive email notifications automatically.
Provide the ability for public sector buyers to promote and market their own procurement plans.
Give public sector buyers the ability to advertise contract notices.
To be able to publish and recieve low value request for quotes and tenders securely through the Future Sell2Wales Procurement Portal.
Provide the ability for suppliers to promote their goods & services to public sector buyers.
Significantly improve procurement management information available to Welsh Government and other public sector bodies registered on the Future Sell2Wales Procurement Portal.
Provide a billingual site in Welsh and English.
The Welsh Government, on behalf of the Welsh Ministers, will be conducting this procurement exercise through the etenderwales portal https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk Tender documents and other information must be downloaded from and returned through this portal. If you require any further assistance the BravoSolution helpdesk is available on:
Email: help@bravosolution.co.uk Phone: +44 8003684850/ Fax: +44 2070600480.
Full information in accessing the portal is found in Section VI.3.
The Welsh Government will be hosting a Supplier Briefing day for prospective bidders on the 30.4.2012. This will be held at the Waterton Centre in Bridgend, South Wales and will be a morning event. To register your interest please submit your request via the messaging portal of the PQQ. Please note places are restricted to a maximum of 2 places per organisation.
Community Benefits apply to this contract, further details: further details will be issued in the ITT.
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Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding-up or administration by the courts or for an arrangement with creditors or is the subject of any other similar proceeding under national laws or regulations;
(c) has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of res judicata;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can justify;
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or those of the country of the contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under the provisions of the Directive on the criteria for qualitative selection.
Details to be provided will be listed in the prequalification questionnaire.
Section IV: Procedure
Other: English and Welsh.
Section VI: Complementary information
The Contract duration will be 3 years initially and will have an option to extend the duration up to a period of a further 2 years.
— Go to https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk,
— The first person from your organisation to use the platform will be required to register on behalf of the organisation,
— Registration involves accepting a user agreement, and providing basic information about your organisation and about the User performing the registration,
— The user who performs the Registration becomes the super user for the organisation,
— On registering on the platform the super user will select a username and will receive a password,
— The Password will be sent by e-mail to the email address that was specified in the user details section of the registration page,
— In order to log-in to the platform please enter your username and password,
— Note: if you forget your password then visit the homepage and click “Forgot your password?”,
— Registration should only be performed once for each organisation,
— If you think that someone in your organisation may have already registered on this Platform then you must not register again,
— Please contact the person who registered (i.e. the super user) in order to arrange access to the platform,
— Contact the helpdesk immediately if you are unable to contact the super user (for example if they have left your organisation),
— Note: if your organisation is already registered on the platform then you must not make any additional registration. Please contact the Helpdesk to gain access to the platform,
— Tenders must be uploaded to the BravoSolution portal by 2pm.
How to find the PQQ:
— Once logged in you must click on ‘PQQs Open to all Suppliers’,
— The etender references for this contract are: Project_22607 and PQQ_30340,
— Click on the title to access summary details of the contract. If you are still interested in expressing an interest, click the ‘Express an Interest button’. This will move the PQQ from the ‘Open to all Suppliers’ area to the ‘My PQQ’s’ on the home page,
— You will then see the full details of the PQQ in the qualification and technical envelopes along with any relevant documents in the ‘Attachments’ area,
— Should you have any questions on the PQQ, please use the ‘Messages’ area to contact the buyer directly – Please do not contact the named person at the top of this notice.
Buy4Wales Reference Number: 29876.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:18.4.2012