Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Tourism NI
Floor 10-12 Linum Chambers, Bedford Square, Bedford Street
BELFAST
BT2 7ES
SSDadmin.CPD@finance-ni.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
ID 2434961 — DfE TNI — Destination Management System
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKN - Northern Ireland
two.2.4) Description of the procurement at the time of conclusion of the contract:
Tourism NI require a supplier to deliver a Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) e-Tourism solution to support its tourism development, including consumer, travel trade and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events) markets. A specification of requirements for this work includes: The delivery of a Destination Management System, including development of websites for Tourism NI consumer and MICE audiences and the potential roll out of the platform to up to 11 Local Councils and other key partners, the supply of the backend database and software applications to deliver the functionality requested. Tenderers must note that there may be workload fluctuations at different time periods of the year. Tourism NI would like to have the option to roll out all of the functionality of the platform to up to 11 Local Councils and other industry partners.
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement, dynamic purchasing system or concession
Duration in months
60
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Section four. Procedure
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Contract award notice concerning this contract
Notice number: 2020/S 038-091220
Section five. Award of contract/concession
Contract No
1
five.2) Award of contract/concession
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract/concession award decision:
18 February 2020
five.2.2) Information about tenders
The contract/concession has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire
New Mind Internet Consultancy Trading as Simpleview Europe Ltd
Suite 1.02 South Harrington Building 182 Sefton Street
Liverpool
L3 4BQ
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKN - Northern Ireland
Internet address
https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
The contractor/concessionaire is an SME
No
five.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot/concession (at the time of conclusion of the contract;excluding VAT)
Total value of the procurement: £1,836,060
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review 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.
Belfast
Country
United Kingdom
six.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended). and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award. of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the. unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into
Section seven: Modifications to the contract/concession
seven.1) Description of the procurement after the modifications
seven.1.1) Main CPV code
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
seven.1.3) Place of performance
NUTS code
- UKN - Northern Ireland
seven.1.4) Description of the procurement:
Tourism NI require a supplier to deliver a Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) e-Tourism solution to support its tourism development, including consumer, travel trade and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events) markets. A specification of requirements for this work includes: The delivery of a Destination Management System, including development of websites for Tourism NI consumer and MICE audiences and the potential roll out of the platform to up to 11 Local Councils and other key partners, the supply of the backend database and software applications to deliver the functionality requested. Tenderers must note that there may be workload fluctuations at different time periods of the year. Tourism NI would like to have the option to roll out all of the functionality of the platform to up to 11 Local Councils and other industry partners.
seven.1.5) Duration of the contract, framework agreement, dynamic purchasing system or concession
Duration in months
60
seven.1.6) Information on value of the contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot/concession:
£2,754,090
seven.1.7) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire
New Mind Internet Consultancy Trading as Simpleview Europe Ltd
Suite 1.02 South Harrington Building 182 Sefton Street
Liverpool
L3 4BQ
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKN - Northern Ireland
Internet address
https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
The contractor/concessionaire is an SME
No
seven.2) Information about modifications
seven.2.1) Description of the modifications
Nature and extent of the modifications (with indication of possible earlier changes to the contract):
Tourism NI require a modification of the Contract value to deliver the required additional development, required technical fixes or amends for the key consumer facing discovernorthernireland.com. The value of the contract has been uplifted to £2,754,090.00
seven.2.2) Reasons for modification
Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire.
Description of the economic or technical reasons and the inconvenience or duplication of cost preventing a change of contractor:
Tourism NI procured a contract to deliver a Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) eTourism solution to support its tourism development. Tourism NI require a modification of the Contract value to deliver required additional development, required technical fixes or amends for the consumer facing discovernorthernireland.com. The modification value is £918,030
The supplier has built this website to allow for collaborative integration with local councils therefore there are technical reasons that the current Supplier would be the only supplier that could complete this work.
In accordance with Regulation 72(1) (b) Additional works, services or supplies “have become necessary” and were not included in the initial procurement and a change of supplier would not be practicable (for economic, technical or interoperability reasons) and would involve substantial inconvenience/duplication of costs - provided the change does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract
seven.2.3) Increase in price
Updated total contract value before the modifications (taking into account possible earlier contract modifications, price adaptions and average inflation)
Value excluding VAT: £1,836,060
Total contract value after the modifications
Value excluding VAT: £2,754,090