Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Head of Procurement
Western Avenue
Cardiff
CF5 2YB
UK
Contact person: Andrea Brooksbank
Telephone: +44 2920417310
E-mail: abrooksbank@cardiffmet.ac.uk
NUTS: UKL22
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/procurement/
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0259
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Design and Build of the Cardiff Metropolitan University Website
Reference number: ITT/22/22
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72212783
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The University wishes to appoint an organisation to design, build, host and maintain the University’s new web site.
We are flexible in our approach and welcome bids from suppliers that are either web designers and would build the site from an open-source CMS and provide design and hosting, or CMS suppliers that would provide the whole solution from the CMS and the design, build to hosting.
We aim to launch the new website in summer 2023 and have an estimated budget of circa 365,000.00 GBP inc. vat for the entire project.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
380 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48780000
72413000
72415000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL22
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The University wishes to appoint a supplier to build the entire Cardiff Metropolitan University website. We are seeking a partner that is as passionate about achieving our goals as we are and want to build a strong and flexible working relationship between the service provider and our in-house teams to implement the web build and content strategy together.
The current website runs on Microsoft 2013 and has been in place since 2009. The site has had numerous changes over a 10-year period, consists of over 2000 indexed pages, multiple content editors across the university who create and maintain pages on the website. The site is now outdated and needs replacing and updating.
The new website replacement project will include 3 major work streams,
1 New wireframe and design
2 CMS website build hosting and maintenance
3 Content project including a content strategy plan.
The University is looking to award to a bidder that will provide work for streams 1 and 2 with close collaboration on workstream 3.
The procurement will follow a two stage Restricted process, the first stage is pre-qualification using the Selection Questionnaire (SQ). The SQ is available on the University's etender portal Intend
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffmet/aspx/Home
The closing date and time for return of the completed SQ is 12 noon on the 24th June 2022. It is envisaged that tender documentation will be issued to those suppliers who successfully pre-qualify (5 suppliers) week commencing 4th July 2022.
To access the SQ please register on the Intend etender site, which is free of charge and simply requires some standard contact details. As soon as login details and password are created please login. Select Tenders, Current, the project is the Design and Build of the University's Website, View Details, Express an Interest and the SQ document is in the Selection Stage tab of the project. You may then view the SQ or download. Please return a completed SQ by uploading the document to the site and selecting Submit return by the date and time.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical
/ Weighting: 75
Cost criterion: cost
/ Weighting: 25
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2022/S 022-121500
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 2022/S 000-014240
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
02/05/2023
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 4
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 1
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 4
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Terminalfour Solutions Ltd
Second Floor 110 Amiens Street Dublin 1 Ireland D01 F6N2
Dublin
D01F6N2
IE
Telephone: +44 00000000
NUTS: IE
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 380 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be subcontracted
Value or proportion likely to be subcontracted to third parties
Proportion: 30 %
Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:
Granite Digital, will be partnering with Terminalfour to deliver the design section of the project.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
This is a contract award notice, not a contract opportunity. The contract has been awarded to Terminalfour.
(WA Ref:132124)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
High Court
Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
Telephone: +44 2079477501
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
06/06/2023