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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Liverpool City Council

Outsourced Online Criminal Record Checks

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£66,000
Awarded5 May 2016
Published25 Apr 2016
RegionNorth West

£66,000 — stated in the notice.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£66ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Liverpool City Council currently processes approximately 1500 Criminal Records Checks per year.

We are now seeking to outsource this complete process including applicant ID checking, counter signatory obligations and full online checking service to an external provider who will provide the full end to end checking service on behalf of Liverpool City Council.

To clarify, the solution MUST include a facility for 3rd Party ID/Documentation checks (i.e. via partner organisation such as Post Office).

LCC require the successful bidder to be able to provide checks from the following agencies: ?

Disclosure and Barring Service. ?

Disclosure Scotland Term: The initial contract will be for 12 months.

2 x 12 Month extensions are available subject to satisfactory performance and the contract remaining in line with the council priorities.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

We are now seeking to outsource this

We are now seeking to outsource this complete process including applicant ID checking, counter signatory obligations and full online checking service to an external provider who will provide the full end to end checking service on behalf of Liverpool City Council.

02

To clarify, the solution MUST include

To clarify, the solution MUST include a facility for 3rd Party ID/Documentation checks (i.e. via partner organisation such as Post Office).

03

LCC require the successful bidder to

LCC require the successful bidder to be able to provide checks from the following agencies:.

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

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

DBS checkPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Disclosure and Barring Service.
Disclosure ScotlandPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Disclosure Scotland

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
33a8f343-2a1a-4794-af00-34ef87f338ea
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CF1V3-20160425-00002099
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