Official UK procurement notice
West Berkshire District Council - Road Safety Platform - Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT)
Authority: West Berkshire District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe supply of a road safety software (Acuity Suite) including access to a data portal, professional expertise, road safety educational materials and training.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) notice directly awarding a 3 + 2 year…
This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) notice directly awarding a 3 + 2 year contract for the provision of a road safety suite of services which include:
Access to a data portals which links to:
- Profiling of regional road safety issues using collision data, trends and other appropriate sources.
- Improving understanding of 'who' is involved in accidents and identifying hotspots in the district.
- Related risk analysis and reporting.
- Creating relevant reports to identify current and future emergent issues.
- Specialist guidance and advise around variety of related road safety themes.
- Stakeholder engagement with partners, emergency services and other groups.
- Educational packages developed alongside council officers specifically meeting our area profiling requirements.
In addition to the road safety software (Acuity Suite), the supplier provides professional expertise to the road safety officers and the wider transport team:
- to help identify the causes of problems
- to help develop solutions to those problems
- Access to evaluation and monitoring expertise to ensure effective and efficient objectives are met.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Feb 2024, 16:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Feb 2024, 16:30 GMT
- Authority reference
CL435- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-006164- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
This Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) notice directly awarding this contract without prior publication is due to the council being unable to identify any suitable alternative provider of the system and service. The contract will allow the Council to continue its vital road safety work and meet its statutory duty under section 39 of the 1988 Road Traffic Act, 'to take steps both to reduce and prevent accidents'.
Accordingly, it is considered that the proposed award of a contract to Agilysis is in accordance with paragraph 2(b) of Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (EU Directive 2014/24/EC).
Publisher note: The Council intends to award the contract following expiry of the ten days standstill period. The anticipated contract award date shall be 8th March 2024.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastContracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- West Berkshire District CouncilReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Agilysis LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.