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UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

RE21617 - BEIS - Baseline Non-Compliance of Products Purchased by Consumers: Smart Speaker - Invitation to Quote

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71600000 73000000
Value£100k
Awarded17 Dec 2021
Published15 Mar 2022
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Friday 17th December 2021 at 11:00 DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

All tender information MUST be submitted through the Delta eSourcing Portal.

Brief Description of Requirement The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is an appointed market surveillance authority, responsible for (via the Secretary of State) enforcing the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) within the UK.

The test results stemming from this tender will form part of a larger testing programme currently being undertaken by OPSS.

The aim of this testing programme is establish the baseline levels of non-compliance across a range of products.

This tender is focusing on one product from that range.

The results of this testing programme will help to inform future OPSS decision-making and aid impact measurement.

The successful bidder is to provide test results for 50 different examples of the below electrical product to verify their compliance against the Radio Equipment Regulations.

The test house will therefore receive 50 x 3 multiples of each sample to allow for the full suite of tests to be carried out.

Therefore, the test house will receive 150 items in total.

50 x 3 = 150.

Smart Speaker Samples: The identified test methods applied should follow the relevant standards set out in the Regulations as applicable to the smart speaker samples and should be carried out to the following standard: • EN 62368:2014 +AC:2015 o Clause 4 General requirements (Limited Assessment) o Clause 5.3 Protection against electrical energy sources o Clause 5.4.9 Electric Strength o Clause 5.4.3 and 5.4.2 Clearance, creepage distances (Limited Assessment) o Annex F Marking and Instructions and • Regulation 39 CE/UKCA marking • Regulation 8 or 18 Postal address of economic operator o Annex G.4.2 Direct plug-in equipment (Limited clauses of BS 1363) • EN 55032:2015 +A11:2020 • EN55035:2017 Please ensure you review all attached information for a full understanding of this requirement.

All attachments can be found in the Document Uploads tab within the Delta eSourcing Portal.

How to Apply UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) will be using the Delta eSourcing Portal for this procurement.

To register on the Delta eSourcing portal please use https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ and follow the instructions to register.

If you are already registered on the Delta eSourcing Portal and wish to participate in this procurement, please use the link: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ and the follow instructions to 'Log in' Once you are logged into the system you will be able to link yourself into this procurement using the Access Code: SJXSF5WQDA

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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All tender information MUST be submitted through

All tender information MUST be submitted through the Delta eSourcing Portal.

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The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is an appointed market surveillance authority, responsible for (via the Secretary of State) enforcing the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) within the UK.

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The successful bidder is to provide test

The successful bidder is to provide test results for 50 different examples of the below electrical product to verify their compliance against the Radio Equipment Regulations.

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The identified test methods applied should follow

The identified test methods applied should follow the relevant standards set out in the Regulations as applicable to the smart speaker samples and should be carried out to the following standard:.

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Once you are logged into the system

Once you are logged into the system you will be able to link yourself into this procurement using the Access Code: SJXSF5WQDA.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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