ID 4495113 - DfE - TOURISM NI - TOURISM BUSINESS HUB AND WEBSITE SUPPORT MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

Concepts

• belfast
• information technology
• software development
• tourism northern ireland
• website support maintenance
• tourism ni staff
• tourism ni
• ni
• underpinning tourism ni’s key priorities
• hub

Location

BELFAST

Description

Tourism Northern Ireland (TNI) is responsible for the development of tourism and the marketing of Northern Ireland as a tourist destination to domestic tourists, from within Northern Ireland, and to visitors from the Republic of Ireland. Underpinning Tourism NI’s key priorities is a Transformation Programme, including an organisation restructure and the ongoing development of a secure, cloud-based IT infrastructure. Tourism NI wish to procure a contract for the support, maintenance, licencing and development of our current corporate and industry website, tourismni.com. The website requires to operate on Optimizely (previously Episerver) Content Management System (CMS) and requires full integration with Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System and software applications to deliver the functionality as detailed in this specification. TNI would like to procure a platform-as-a-service with out of the box functionality that only requires implementation and training to empower Tourism NI staff to utilise this functionality. The initial contract period is for 3 years with 1 further optional extension period of up to 2 years. Please refer to the document entitled “ID 4495113 – Specification” for full details of the requirement.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

This Contract is for an initial period of 3 years with 1 further optional extension period of up to 2 years

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
• 48000000 - Software package and information systems
• 48300000 - Document creation, drawing, imaging, scheduling and productivity software package
• 48600000 - Database and operating software package
• 48800000 - Information systems and servers
• 48780000 - System, storage and content management software package
• 72212780 - System, storage and content management software development services
• 72212783 - Content management software development services
• 48612000 - Database-management system
• 72212600 - Database and operating software development services
• 72212610 - Database software development services
• 72212224 - Web page editing software development services
• 72212213 - Operating system enhancement software development services

Indicators

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

Other Information

The total contract value of £160,6534.50 included within this Award Notice represents the figure that was used for evaluation purposes of this competition. This figure was calculated inclusive of Tourism NI’s estimated usage for Application Lifestyle Management, general Website development, work packages, additional services and out of hours support. The actual value of the contract will depend upon the usage requirements of Tourism NI throughout the duration of the contract and therefore the actual total contract may be more or less than this published total value amount. Contract monitoring: the successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. 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 construction and procurement delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, this may be considered grounds for termination of the contract at your expense as provided for in the Conditions of Contract. In lieu of termination, CPD may issue a Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance. A supplier in receipt of multiple Notices of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance may, in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended), be excluded from future public procurement competitions for a period of. up to three years..