Official UK procurement notice
Soft Market Testing (SMT) - Op Creative Portal
Authority: City of London Corporation (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a soft market testing exercise in relation to an upcoming requirement the City of London (CoL) has for a new Op Creative Portal Contract.
The soft market testing will involve the submission of the SMT questionnaire to be received by 12:00 on 10th January 2024 via the capitalesourcing portal (www.capitalesourcing.com ↗).
If your organisation would like to participate in this soft market testing exercise, it should firstly complete, sign and return the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA), via the portal, prior to being able to access the SMT questionnaire. The supplier then can complete and return the SMT Questionnaire. The SMT will be sent once the supplier has returned the NDA via: www.capitalesourcing.com ↗, refer to the Reference number: prj_COL_23175 or pqq_COL_1929.
The City will not be held accountable for any errors made by an organisation in submitting their applicable SMT Questionnaire(s).
Participation or non-participation in the SMT shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the SMT shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process.
Participants will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to the SMT or failure to attend any follow up interviews that may be arranged at the absolute discretion of the City. Participation in this SMT will be at each organisation's own cost. No expense in responding to this SMT will be reimbursed by the City.
CPV: Application service providers · Information technology services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1SMT in this case is where the CoL, is at an early stage in development of its…Planned
SMT in this case is where the CoL, is at an early stage in development of its proposals but prior to formulating any formal procurement opportunity, it seeks input from the market as to what might be the most attractive way of packaging and scoping a future procurement opportunity for an Op Creative Portal contract. This contract covers the City of London Police as part of the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU).
The City of London Police has number of specialist departments. One of these departments is the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU). PIPCU deals with a wide variety of criminal matters that related Intellectual Property (IP) infringement. This departments two main areas of work are hard goods and online IP infringement.
PIPCU operates two online website domain disruptions operations called Creative and Ashiko Operation Creative launched in April 2014, it is a ground-breaking initiative designed to disrupt and prevent websites from providing unauthorised access to copyrighted content, led by the PIPC in partnership with the creative and advertising industries.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Dec 2023, 14:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Dec 2023, 14:30 GMT
- Authority reference
prj_COL_23175/pqq_COL_1929- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-036533- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0424f1Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a soft market testing exercise in relation to an upcoming requirement the City of London (CoL) has for a new Op Creative Portal Contract. The soft market testing will involve the submission of the SMT questionnaire to be received by 12:00 on 10th January 2024 via the capitalesourcing portal (www.capitalesourcing.com). If your organisation would like to participate in this soft market testing exercise, it can do so by downloading, completing and returning the SMT Questionnaire which can be found on the City's eProcurement portal at: www.capitalesourcing.com, refer to the Reference number: prj_COL_23175 or pqq_COL_1929. The City will not be held accountable for any errors made by an organisation in submitting their applicable SMT Questionnaire(s). Participation or non-participation in the SMT shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the SMT shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participants will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to the SMT or failure to attend any follow up interviews that may be arranged at the absolute discretion of the City. Participation in this SMT will be at each organisation's own cost. No expense in responding to this SMT will be reimbursed by the City.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Dec 2023 → 12 Dec 2023 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected12 Dec 2023
- Notice published12 Dec 2023, 14:30 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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