Official UK procurement notice
Met Office Delivery Partnerships Framework
Authority: Met Office (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThis Framework will support the Met Office to award a number of potential future contracts which will include Delivery Partnership relationships of both a tactical (e.g. one-off developments) and strategic (longer term 2 / 3 project and programme requirements) nature. The estimated value of £30 million for this Framework is based on the potential demand and varying length of contracts which the Met Office may seeks to award through it. The potential framework will help transform the Met Office by supporting the following Strategic Actions identified by the MO:
- Developing and nurturing capability partnerships
- Delivering a Common Met Office Data Platform
- Exploiting the future of data sciences
- Taking a common approach to customer data services
The Met Office is therefore establishing a framework with a number of companies who can help with that transformation, both by bringing new skills and knowledge and by bolstering the capacity and capability of existing Met Office teams to deliver required outcomes. This should also include being able to supply additional resource to augment teams if and where further gaps are identified, ensuring up-skilling is provided if required. This does not include contingent labour which the Met Office have separate contractual arrangements in place for.
The Met Office's new strategy requires a significant step change in technology systems, resources and ways of working. This is encapsulated in a number of ‘Strategic Actions’. Several of these actions will be realised via programmes of work with both customer benefit and technology at their heart. The amount of change ahead is large and many of these changes are interrelated and complex, and the Met Office cannot make these changes alone. By extending our capacity and capability, we can move faster and focus on the areas we add real value by leveraging the expertise of partners.
CPV: Computer network services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Research and development services and related consultancy services · Software programming and consultancy services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 55 suppliers
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · all with a published value · win at most 2 of them · evaluation weights differ by lotLot #1Applications DevelopmentPublished value£7,000,000
“The ability to build and deliver customer and business facing applications from well elaborated requirements“
This lot is intended for suppliers who will largely be working with the Met Office, where we will be defining requirements and supervising delivery with the expectation of transferring the capability back to an internal team or other 3rd party support capability.
Lot #2Applications Design, Development & SupportPublished value£8,000,000
An overlapping category that distinguishes larger organisations that can deliver and support the end to end discovery and live phases of any capability from outline requirements.
This lot is intended for suppliers who may largely be working with Met Office, where we will expect that supplier to understand an outcome and perform the discovery, lifecycle and retirement activities required to deliver it. The critical differentiator for these suppliers is their ability to provide a hosting and support capability.
Lot #3Hardware Installation, lifecycling and supportPublished value£1,000,000
The ability to install and support physical infrastructure such as compute and network capability.
This lot is intended for suppliers who are expected to be able to provide the ability to installation, management, migration and integration of hardware solutions at scale, or in niche contexts.
Lot #4Advice and ExpertisePublished value£4,000,000
Leadership and consultancy to provide advice to a programme in the form of ongoing expertise, business analysis or project management.
This lot is intended for areas where the Met Office is expected to be able to deliver the outcome, but expertise is needed at a high level to define the desired outcome or the roadmap. These suppliers will also be capable of providing supporting delivery resources, but not necessarily the delivery resources themselves.
Lot #5Enterprise PartnersPublished value£10,000,000
Suppliers with capability across all other Lots who have experience in delivering large change programmes and projects.
Large scale suppliers with reach back and out to all delivery, management and support capabilities
Lot 5 is specifically designed to capture the large system integrators and IT service suppliers should a “one stop shop” solution be required, or a significantly large and costly programme of work be best delivered by one party. Therefore Lot 5 providers will be required to demonstrate that they have existing skills, capabilities and pricing across Lots 2, 3 and 4 (as well as those required for Lot 5).
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).
Lots publish different evaluation splits; there is no single procedure weighting.
| Lot | Quality | Price | Social value | Split |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Applications Development | 73% | 20% | 7% | |
| 2 · Applications Design, Development & Support | 73% | 20% | 7% | |
| 3 · Hardware Installation, lifecycling and support | 73% | 20% | 7% | |
| 4 · Advice and Expertise | 73% | 20% | 7% | |
| 5 · Enterprise Partners | 73% | 20% | 7% |
- Economic & financial standing
Your financial risk will be evaluated PASS/FAIL.
What we will do to assess your financial risk
Stage 1
We will use a credit reference agency (Dun & Bradstreet) to obtain a financial risk indicator score (D&B Failure Score) for you and any members of your consortium or any nominated guarantor(s).
If the financial risk indicator score is at levels 1(Minimal Risk), 2 (Lower than average risk) or 3 (Greater than average risk) , or there is an equivalent international score, you will receive a Pass for this question.
Stage 2
If the financial risk indicators score is at Level 4 (High risk) or no financial risk score is available then we will ask for copies of your financial statements, audited if applicable, for the two most recent years.
If there are no financial statements available, we will ask for other information including:
- a statement of turnover, profit and loss account/income statement, balance sheet/statement of financial position and statement of cash flow for the most recent period of trading
- forecast financial statements and cash for the current year and a bank letter outlining the current cash and credit position and/or
- an alternative means of demonstrating financial status
If the information we ask for is not provided you will Fail this question and your bid may be rejected.
Stage 3
We will then use the information provided at stage 2 above to assess the level of financial risk using our financial risk assessment template, File 3 - Framework Financial Analysis.…
Minimum: You must have, or agree to get before the framework contract start date, the following levels of insurance cover: ● Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance* = £5,000,000 ● Public Liability Insurance = £5,000,000 ● Professional Indemnity Insurance = £5,000,000 ● Product Liabil… - Technical & professional ability
The selection criteria as stated in the selection stage documentation.
Minimum: Grounds for Mandatory Exclusion Grounds for Discretionary Exclusion Modern Slavery Act Cyber Essentials Plus and Security questions Skills and Apprentices Evidence of Contract Examples Prompt Payment of Subcontractors Acceptance of HM Government Supplier Code of Conduct Equality,…
- Price carries 20 points on every lot: a 10% discount moves about 2 points.
- “Met Office Delivery Partnerships Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 55 suppliers, 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- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Jan 2021, 14:52 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Jan 2021, 14:52 GMT
- Authority reference
DN481606- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-001860- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 1 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
Timeline
29 Jan 2021 → 31 Mar 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published29 Jan 2021, 14:52 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown1 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Invitations to tender expected31 Mar 2021, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyContracting authority
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.