RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

FORESTRY COMMISSION

IT Infrastructure Support and Maintenance Service

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£85k
Awarded16 Nov 2023
Published11 Apr 2024
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£85ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the IT Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Forest Research are seeking proposals for the services described in the attached document titled CR2023/24/020_Infrastructure_Support_and_Maintenance_Service_Procurement_Specification.

Your proposal should include the following: A proposal to address each of the requirements in the document, a maximum of 15 pages in length.

A presentation to explain how your service is the 'best fit' for this requirement, how you will deliver the service and how you will work with FR.

A minimum of two case studies and references from other business, ideally similar in nature and/or scale to this requirement.

A commercial spreadsheet to include (a) the costs for each of the service elements (including optional, clearly separated) and (b) a rate card for professional services.

A service credit/penalty regime.

Evidence of Cyber Essentials certification.

The weightings below apply to this requirement and ensure the relative importance of each section is correctly reflected in the overall scores applied.

60% - non price criteria - relevance and appropriateness of the solution to our requirements and 'fit' of the bidders way of working and delivery, against FR's own objectives and operational needs.

40% price criteria.

The price score and the non-price score will be combined to give the overall tender score for each tender.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Your proposal should include the following

Your proposal should include the following:.

02

A presentation to explain how your service

A presentation to explain how your service is the 'best fit' for this requirement, how you will deliver the service and how you will work with FR.

03

The weightings below apply to this requirement

The weightings below apply to this requirement and ensure the relative importance of each section is correctly reflected in the overall scores applied.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Cyber EssentialsCertification & assessment schemes
Evidence of Cyber Essentials certification.

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Source & provenance
OCID
e82588a8-3b4c-4190-b866-c9e00a3d09ba
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
CR2023/24/020 Rev 1
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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