Official UK procurement notice
ID 5627458 - DoJ - PSNI - Autodesk Support
Authority: Police Service of Northern Ireland (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is the Police Service that serves Northern Ireland and is responsible for the prevention and investigation of crime in Northern Ireland. Autodesk is a software application which is used within PSNI to provide maps and drawings to Operational Officers, used specifically by Mapping Section; Estate Services Business Unit; and ICS Work Services and s also used in order to view mapping supplied by external partners. This contract is for the Provision of Autodesk Licence Subscriptions including Support Training and renewal of existing subscriptions for a number of Autodesk applications. In particular it is for the full or partial renewal of subscriptions for a period of five years. The current subscriptions will expire on 25th May 2025. Therefore the contract for the renewal of existing subscriptions will commence on 26th May 2025 for a period of five years. For further details regarding the requirement, please refer to document entitled “ID 5627458 – Specification”.
- Recurrence: This contract will potentially be due to be re-procured after the initial contract period.
CPV: Computer-aided design (CAD) software development services · Document creation, drawing, imaging, scheduling and productivity software package · Drawing and imaging software package · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems · Software programming and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1CancelledRenewalPublished value£250,000
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 (3)
- AC2 - Contract and Account Management: 4.95%
- AC3 - Total Contract Price: 85%
- AC1 - Social Value: 10.05%
Published award criteria (3)
- AC1 - Social Value: 10.05
- AC2 - Contract and Account Management: 4.95
- AC3 - Total Contract Price: 85
- Price carries 85 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 8.5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
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
- Cancelled
- 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
- Yes · This contract will potentially be due to be re-procured after the initial contract period.
- First published
- 11 Feb 2025, 14:24 GMT
- Last source update
- 1 May 2025, 17:05 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 17 Mar 2025 – …
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-018584- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ddc5Find 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.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Mar 2025, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 17 Mar 2025, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
17 Mar 2025 → 15 Jun 2025 · 4 dates- Submission deadline17 Mar 2025, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened17 Mar 2025, 15:30 GMT
- Notice published1 May 2025, 17:05 BST
- Bids must remain valid until15 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to unsuccessful1 May 2025, 17:05 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation proceduresReview body
- 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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria