Server Maintenance Framework for Scottish Government

Scottish Government
Saughton House, Broom House Drive
Contact point(s): Scottish Procurement
For the attention of: Gemma Beach
EH11 3XD Edinburgh
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1312448498
E-mail: gemma.beach@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.gov.scot

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA10482

Electronic access to information: http://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: http://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions

General public services

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

National Records of Scotland

Historic Scotland

Disclosure Scotland

Registers of Scotland

Scottish Qualification Authority

Scottish Courts Service

Scottish Prison Service

Transport Scotland

The Scottish Government Core Directorates

Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited

Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service

Scottish Police Authority

National Museums of Scotland

Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Scottish Legal Aid Board

Scottish Natural Heritage

Skills Development Scotland

Visit Scotland

Aberdeen City Council

Aberdeenshire Council

Angus Council

Argyll and Bute Council

City of Edinburgh Council

Clackmannanshire Council

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Dundee City Council

East Ayrshire Council

East Dunbartonshire Council

East Lothian Council

East Renfrewshire Council

Falkirk Council

Fife Council

Glasgow City Council

Highland Council

Inverclyde Council

Midlothian Council

Moray Council, The

North Ayrshire Council

North Lanarkshire Council

Orkney Islands Council

Perth and Kinross Council

Renfrewshire Council

Scottish Borders Council

Shetland Islands Council

South Ayrshire Council

South Lanarkshire Council

Stirling Council

West Dunbartonshire Council

West Lothian Council

Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Service

Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service

Fife Fire and Rescue Service

Grampian Fire and Rescue Service

Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service

Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service

Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service

Tayside Fire and Rescue Service

Golden Jubilee Hospital (National Waiting Times Centre Board)

NHS 24

NHS Ayrshire and Arran

NHS Borders

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

NHS Education for Scotland

NHS Fife

NHS Forth Valley

NHS Grampian

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

NHS Health Scotland

NHS Highland

NHS Lanarkshire

NHS Lothian

NHS Orkney

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

NHS Shetland

NHS Tayside

NHS Western Isles

Scottish Ambulance Service

The Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

The State Hospital for Scotland

Fife College

Dundee & Angus College

Edinburgh College

West College Scotland

Glasgow Clyde College

Ayrshire College

City of Glasgow College

North East College Scotland

New College Lanarkshire

Glasgow Kelvin College

Borders College

Dumfries and Galloway College

Forth Valley College

Inverness College

Lews Castle College

Moray College

Newbattle Abbey College

North Highland College

Orkney College

Perth College

Sabhal Mor Ostaig

Shetland College

South Lanarkshire College

West Lothian College

SRUC

Edinburgh Napier University

Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow School of Art

Heriot-Watt University

Queen Margaret University

Robert Gordon University

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

UHI Millennium Institute

University of Aberdeen

University of Abertay Dundee

University of Dundee

University of Edinburgh

University of Glasgow

University of St Andrews

University of Stirling

University of Strathclyde

University of the West of Scotland

Cairngorms National Park Authority

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator

Forestry Commission Scotland

Audit Scotland

Server Maintenance Framework.

Services
Service category No 1: Maintenance and repair services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Scotland.

NUTS code UKM

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

Framework agreement with a single operator

Duration of the framework agreement

Duration in months: 48

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 4 000 000 and 8 000 000 GBP

The Scottish Ministers (the Authority) are seeking to establish a national Server Maintenance framework agreement.
A key aim of this single supplier framework will be to enhance Server Maintenance services and to achieve greater value for money.
The selected Contractor will be expected to deliver consistently high-levels of service on a cost-effective and best value basis to each Framework Public Body.
Some of the key (but not limited to)service delivery areas are likely to include: All server types, Local Area Network Switches, Tape drives and Tape libraries, Keyboard Video Monitor Switches, Network Attached Storage, Storage Area Network.
It will also be possible to include the following service delivery areas if required: Operating Systems, Firmware and equipment moves.
The Server Maintenance Framework Agreement will form part of a wider portfolio of ICT Services Frameworks available to Framework Public Bodies designed to support the Digital Public Services Strategy Scotland’s Digital Future: Delivery of Public Services and other associated strategies and policies such as the High-Level Operating Framework and Hosting & Data Centre Strategy.
The framework agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Student Loans Company Limited, the Forestry Commission, the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, the Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within the meaning of section 6 of the further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by 1 or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by 1 or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by 1 or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing. In addition to the contracting authorities listed, the framework agreement will be available to charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register and voluntary organisations entered on the Membership Database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Information about agencies of the Scottish Ministers and offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices is available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/public-bodies-guide/government-scotland

Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies are listed at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies

Information about the Review of Public Procurement in Scotland and links to the other Centres of Expertise are available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Procurement

Note: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to carry out this procurement process. Please note this is a separate website and if you are not already registered, registration will be required.

To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access the tender documentation please visithttps://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk and search for project Code (3400) PCS ITT Code 7565 under ITTs Open to All Suppliers. Please use the Search/Filter function, then select Project Code from the drop-down. Please note that once you have expressed interest in the ITT it will move to your My ITTs area.

For further information on using PCS-Tender, please read the Supplier Response Guide:https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/public/pts/supplierhelppage/PCS-TSupplierResponseGuide.pdf

If you have already registered on Public Contracts Scotland and PCS-Tender and paired your accounts you can access PCS-Tender through your Public Contracts Scotland Control Panel.

50312100, 50312000, 50323000, 50312300, 50312600, 72267000, 72610000, 72514000

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

This contract is divided into lots: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 4 000 000 and 8 000 000 GBP

Options: yes
Description of these options: The framework duration will be 24 months with the option to extend for a period, or periods up to a further 24 months.

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Duration in months: 48 (from the award of the contract)

Parent company and/or other guarantees of performance and financial liability may be required by Scottish Procurement. Participants will be advised during the procurement process if these are required.

Where consortia or other groupings of organisations submit a bid, they must be bound jointly and severally. Such consortia or other groupings must nominate a lead member to deal with the Scottish Government on all matters relating to this procurement exercise.

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent.
(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.
(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.
(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession.
(5) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process.
(6) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established.
(7) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the economic operator is established.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
(1) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide certification from an independent body attesting conformity to security standards in accordance with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management Systems, or equivalent as stated in the Invitation to Tender Documents.

Open

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

An electronic auction will be used: no

SP-15-001 (Project Code 3400 ITT Reference 7565 in PCS Tender)

21.4.2015 – 12:00

English.

Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

Date: 21.4.2015 – 12:00

Place:

Saughton House, Broom House Drive EH11 3XD.

(SC Ref:339814).

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: An economic Operator that suffers or risks suffering loss or damage attributable to breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Procurement Regulations 2012 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or Court of Session.

6.3.2015