Official UK procurement notice
DfE - Invest NI – Design Consultants Framework
Authority: Invest Northern Ireland (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionInvest NI wishes to establish a Framework of suitably experienced Design Consultancy Contractors to deliver design project consultancy assignments under the DesignActive and DesignForward elements of the Invest NI Design for Business Service.
CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Business and management consultancy services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Design consultancy services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 29 bids on the busiest of 4 lots · 21 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Product / Industrial ApplicationsAwarded
Lot #2Visual CommunicationAwarded
Lot #3Digital New MediaAwarded
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality: 70%
- Cost: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 70
- Cost: 30
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “DfE - Invest NI – Design Consultants Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Sept 2022, 15:32 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2022, 15:32 BST
- Authority reference
ID 2956713- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-027206- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-036c35Find a Tender
- Review procedure
CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and incorporated a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract was communicated to tenderers. That notification provided full information on the award decision. This provided time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into.
Publisher note: Contract monitoring: the successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in construction and procurement delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, this may be considered grounds for termination of the contract at your expense as provided for in the Conditions of Contract. In lieu of termination, CPD may issue a Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance. A supplier in receipt of multiple Notices of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance may, in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended), be excluded from future public procurement competitions for a period of. up to three years..
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast4 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 4 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £1, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Product / Industrial Applications
- Signed
- 20 Oct 2020
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Visual Communication
- Signed
- 20 Oct 2020
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Digital & New Media
- Signed
- 20 Oct 2020
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Design Strategy
- Signed
- 20 Oct 2020
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Product / Industrial Applications | 29bids · 29 electronic · 2 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
| 2 · Visual Communication | 29bids · 29 electronic · 18 from abroad | 18 | — | — |
| 3 · Digital New Media | 29bids · 29 electronic · 11 from abroad | 11 | — | — |
| 4 · Design Strategy | 29bids · 29 electronic · 4 from abroad | 4 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- European UnionFunder
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015 as amended.Review body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
21 commercial parties on the notice- ADDITUDE CREATIVE LIMITEDFramework contractor
- BAG OF BEES LTDFramework contractor
- BRANDLOGIKFramework contractor
- Circle Creative CommunicationsFramework contractor
- DARK RED DESIGN LTDFramework contractor
- DAVID LEWISFramework contractor
- DESIGN ETHOS LTDFramework contractor
- FOURTWENTYSEVEN DESIGN LTD.Framework contractor
- GROVE DESIGN PEMBRIDGE LIMITEDFramework contractor
- JOURNEYFOR BUSINESS LTD.Framework contractor
Show 11 more suppliers
- KENNEY HAMILLFramework contractor
- MADEBYMINTFramework contractor
- MAMMOTH DESIGN CONSULTANTS LTDFramework contractor
- PALE BLUE DOT CREATIVE LIMITEDFramework contractor
- PAPERJAM DESIGN LTDFramework contractor
- SHE SAID DESIGNFramework contractor
- Sort DesignFramework contractor
- THE FOURUM IRELAND LTDFramework contractor
- THE PIERCE PARTNERSHIP LTDFramework contractor
- THOUGHT COLLECTIVE LTDFramework contractor
- URBAN SCALE INTERVENTIONS LIMITEDFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.