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Published 30 Oct 2024, 18:56 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

QUB/2637/24 Contract for the Supply and Delivery of an Experimental Self-Driving (Autonomous Vehicle) Research Platform

Official notice

Authority: Queen's University Belfast (Education)

GoodsOpen procedure

Sectors: Transport Equipment & Vehicles (34) Delivery: Northern Ireland (UKN06)

Awarded value£1,000,000published contract · exc. VAT

Submissions closed 29 Nov 2024awarded 16 Dec 2024

Awarded to Level Five Supplies

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Queen’s University Belfast aims to purchase an autonomous vehicle platform to support research, development, and testing of connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies and services. This platform is required to allow flexibility and interchangeability of its sensing and computing units to enable Queen’s researchers to test those manufactured by various vendors.

CPV: Electric vehicles · Special-purpose motor vehicles · Specialist vehicles · Vehicle conversion kits

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1AwardedRenewal

Delivery: Northern Ireland

Extensions: 24-month warranty, maintenance, and the purchase of any associated consumable or ancillary items included for up to a further 36 months or until the end of useful life of the equipment.Variant bids: not allowed

34114000 Specialist vehicles 34144000 Special-purpose motor vehicles 34144900 Electric vehicles 34328200 Vehicle conversion kits

What it takes to win
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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 more

How bids were scored

Price

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Procedure method: Open procedure
Legal basis: CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category: Goods
Notice status: Awarded
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
First published: 30 Oct 2024, 18:56 GMT
Last source update: 17 Dec 2024, 10:13 GMT
Award evaluation window: 29 Nov 2024 – …
Authority reference: QUB/2637/24
FTS notice number: 2024/S 000-040549
Classification (CPV): Electric vehiclesSpecial-purpose motor vehiclesSpecialist vehiclesVehicle conversion kits
Delivery area: Northern Ireland (UKN06)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04b2be Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice

Submission deadline: 29 Nov 2024, 12:54 GMT
Submission channel: {"written"}
Accepted languages: en
Bids opened: 29 Nov 2024, 16:00 GMT

Timeline

29 Nov 2024 → 17 Dec 2024 · 3 dates

Submission deadline
29 Nov 2024, 12:54 GMT
Bids opened
29 Nov 2024, 16:00 GMT
Notice published
17 Dec 2024, 10:13 GMT

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender

Status changed to complete
17 Dec 2024, 10:13 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £1,000,0001 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 1latest 16 Dec 2024

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Level Five Supplies	£1,000,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 040549-2024-QUB/2597/24-1 · Level Five Supplies
Signed
16 Dec 2024
Value
£1,000,000
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad	0	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Queen's University Belfast

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Procurement Office, University Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NNContact email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Level Five SuppliesAwarded supplier Somerset, South West

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.