Official UK procurement notice
ID 4024822 - DoF - NICSHR - Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Service for the NI Public Sector - 2022
Authority: Department of Finance (Central government)·Consortium: 100 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionConstruction and Procurement Delivery (CPD), as the Central Purchasing Body, intends to establish a 4 year single supplier collaborative Framework Agreement on behalf of the participating bodies listed in the Specification to deliver an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). Tenderers should refer to the Specification Schedule for further details.
CPV: Counselling services · Guidance and counselling services · Health and social work services · Health services · Social work and related services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 2 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat 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).
- “ID 4024822 - DoF - NICSHR - Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Aug 2022, 18:45 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2022, 13:51 GMT
- Authority reference
ID 4024822- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-030958- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035fa1Find 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 CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 16 Sept 2022, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
16 Sept 2022 → 2 Nov 2022 · 2 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown16 Sept 2022, 15:00 BST
- Notice published2 Nov 2022, 13:51 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete2 Nov 2022, 13:51 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
ID 4024822 - DoF - NICSHR - Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Service for the NI Public Sector - 2022
- Signed
- 21 Oct 2022
- Value
- £10,000,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
24 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute NIContracting authority
- Armagh Observatory and PlanetariumContracting authority
- Arts Council of Northern IrelandContracting authority
- Belfast Metropolitan CollegeContracting authority
- Business Services OrganisationContracting authority
- Charity Commission for Northern IrelandContracting authority
- Comhairle na GaelscolaiochtaContracting authority
- Commissioner for Older People for NIContracting authority
- Community Relations CouncilContracting authority
- Compensation ServicesContracting authority
- Construction Industry Training Board Northern IrelandContracting authority
- Consumer Council for Northern IrelandContracting authority
- Council for Catholic Maintained SchoolsContracting authority
- Council for the Curriculum Examinations and AssessmentContracting authority
- Criminal Justice Inspection Northern IrelandContracting authority
- Department for Communities NIContracting authority
- Department for Infrastructure NIContracting authority
- Department for the Economy NIContracting authority
- Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs NIContracting authority
- Department of Education NIContracting authority
- Department of Health NIContracting authority
- Department of Justice NIContracting authority
- Driver and Vehicle Agency NIContracting authority
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Inspire Therapeutic Wellbeing ServicesFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.