Supply Local Authority Management Information System
Management information to enable efficient planning and operation of services.
United Kingdom-Chelmsford: Information technology requirements review services
2014/S 191-337358
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Essex County Council
P.O. Box 4, County Hall, Market Road
For the attention of: Daniel Montague
CM1 1JZ Chelmsford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 3330131052
E-mail: email2workspace-prod+ecc+ws408461749+jkid@ansmtp.ariba.com
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.essex.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)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 7: Computer and related services
NUTS code UKH33
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
— Case management for all children and young people in Essex, to support their journey from early years, through school, and on into further education or employment.
— Support for delivery of statutory business processes e.g. School Admissions, Transport, Free School Meals, Special Educational Needs, Nursery Education Funding, and Family Information Directory.
— Holistic case management, for children and families detailing their involvement with all council services.
— Links to, or integration with, records and processes in Health Systems.
— Links to, or integration with, records and processes in other partner systems(Social Care, police, 3rd sector etc.)
— Management information to enable efficient planning and operation of services.
— Creation of statutory returns and reports.
— Financial management information, including commitment reporting and forecasting.
— Payments and invoicing of providers and service users, integrated with councils financial system, Oracle eBusiness.
— Integration with schools’ local management systems.
— Support of LEA services to early years providers and schools of all types.
— Support of traded activities (to academy schools etc.)
— ‘Digital by default’; services delivered where possible over the internet either through computers or mobile devices
— Cost reduction through automating and streamlining business processes.
— Flexible access to systems by system users, from a variety of devices including mobile.
—Flexibility to respond to the size, scope and nature of the services delivered and supported in response to local and national budget and policy drivers.
The Council may also wish to use the system on behalf of other users such as academies and other education authorities, which may be outside Essex, and may include facility in the contract for call-off by other such users wishing to effect a separate contract.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
72223000, 85300000, 48000000, 48211000, 48190000, 48219300
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Bidders must contact ECC to request to be invited to participate in this procurement by following these Instructions:
1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to email2workspace-prod+ecc+ws408461749+jkid@ansmtp.ariba.com asking to be invited to this event and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details.
2. If you have more than one registered user who you want invited to the event, please provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage.
If you are not registered in Ariba at all, go to http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register, and then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (please note: 35 % completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100 % completion.)
3. Once invited you can log back into the portal and access the information and attachments relating to the opportunity. You will also be able to use the Message Board.
4. Further instructions, guides and assistance on how to take part in an event can be found on the Supplier portal site under the help option on the top menu bar.
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
High Court, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
The Strand
WC2A 2LL London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2079476000
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: