ID 4215231 DfC - PRONI - Catalogues Plus (PCP) System – Support and Development

Concepts

• proni
• dfc - proni - catalogues
• belfast
• information technology
• place support
• proni catalogues plus
• proni’s master catalogue system
• pcp
• proni staff
• proni’s digital preservation system

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is a division of the Department for Communities (DfC). PRONI Catalogues Plus (PCP) is PRONI’s master catalogue system. It is a business critical system essential to the acceptance and management of records, and making records accessible to the public. PCP allows PRONI staff to create and maintain a catalogue of the records under PRONI’s care and to manage the location details of physical records. PCP also receives catalogue data from PRONI’s Digital Preservation system, enabling staff and the public to access digital records. The high-level objectives of this contract are: • Support - To put in place support and maintenance for PRONI’s PCP system; and • Development – To establish a contract that will allow for changes to and enhancement of the PCP system.

Total Quantity or Scope

• Support - To put in place support and maintenance for PRONI’s PCP system; and • Development – To establish a contract that will allow for changes to and enhancement of the PCP system.

Renewal Options

Initial period of 3 years with the option to extend by 2 further periods of 24 months each.

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
• 72232000 - Development of transaction processing and custom software
• 72610000 - Computer support services
• 72611000 - Technical computer support services
• 72230000 - Custom software development services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Options are available.
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with PGN 01/12. 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 Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will 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 for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate.