Official UK procurement notice
ID 4842165 DfE- Invest NI - Drupal CMS Support, Maintenance and Development - Pre Market Engagement
Authority: Invest Northern Ireland (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description** Pre-Market Engagement** DfE- Invest NI - Drupal CMS Support, Maintenance and Development - PME. Invest NI is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to establish a Contract with a Supplier to provide a Drupal support, maintenance and development managed service for their existing websites. This will include maintaining the websites on Invest NI servers, ensuring security patches and version upgrades are analysed and implemented in a timely manner and developing the websites and content management system (CMS) to support the business needs. The potential scale and scope of this service is such that it offers a significant opportunity to bidders. Prior to initiating the procurement Invest NI wishes to establish the level of market interest in participating in the procurement process. The objectives of this exercise are to: gain an update in supplier awareness, engagement and opinion, gain an updated insight to the market possibilities and potential innovative solutions; understand risks and issues not previously considered and inform the Procurement Strategy. Interested parties are requested to complete the questionnaire within the CfT documents area under ID 4842165 DFE- INVEST NI - DRUPAL CMS SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT Pre-Market Engagement Exercise and return it via eTendersNI by 3.00pm on Monday 12 June 2023. Any requests for clarification relating to this exercise must be communicated using the secure messaging function on the eTendersNI portal. Responses to requests for clarification will be communicated by CPD to all interested suppliers through the eTendersNI messaging system. Your completed questionnaire should be uploaded within the eTendersNI portal via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) clarifications messaging function.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Internet and intranet software package · Internet development services · Internet services · Networking, Internet and intranet software package · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Please see the Pre-Market Engagement exercise document (questionnaire) for all relevant details. The objectives of this exercise are to:
- gain initial supplier awareness, engagement and opinion,
- provide confidence around
viability of concept;
- gain insight to the market possibilities and potential innovative solutions;
- understand risks and issues not
previously considered;
- inform the Procurement Strategy; and
- prevent Invest NI from advertising an unachievable project
**PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE MESSAGING FUNCTION on eTendersNI (under
reference ID 4842165 DFE- INVEST NI - DRUPAL CMS SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT by 15:00 on Monday 12 June 2023.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 May 2023, 17:02 BST
- Last source update
- 22 May 2023, 17:02 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-014552- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03ce67Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 May 2023 → 23 May 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published22 May 2023, 17:02 BST
- Tender notice expected23 May 2023, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.