DfE — Invest NI – Provision of Trade Advisory Services (TAS) in the Americas

Concepts

• provision of trade advisory services
• belfast
• management consultancy
• invest ni
• consultancy services
• tas
• americas
• engineering services
• construction services
• business services

Location

Belfast

Description

DfE — Invest NI – Provision of Trade Advisory Services (TAS) in the Americas.

Lot Division

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The contract will be established for an initial period of 1 year, with the option to extend the contract for another two further periods of 2 years each. The maximum length of the contract will be a 5-year period.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services
• 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
• 71300000 - Engineering services
• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 71314000 - Energy and related services
• 72222300 - Information technology services
• 71500000 - Construction-related services
• 72600000 - Computer support and consultancy services
• 73200000 - Research and development consultancy services
• 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
• 77000000 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

The successful contractor’s performance on this contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 — Contract Management — Procedures and Principles). Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a notice of unsatisfactory performance and this contract may be terminated. A central register of such notices for supplies and services contracts will be maintained and published on the CPD website. Any contractor in receipt of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period of 3 years from the date of issue of the notice. It may also result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy.