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Scottish Wide Area Network.

Contract award notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

National Services Scotland (The Common Services Agency)
Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent
Contact point(s): NISG
For the attention of: Mark Salveta
EH12 9EB Edinburgh
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1312756752

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA12442

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.3)Main activity
General public services
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

National Records of Scotland

Historic Scotland

Disclosure Scotland

Registers of Scotland

Scottish Qualification Authority

Scottish Courts Service

Scottish Prison Service

Transport Scotland

The Scottish Government Core Directorates

Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited

Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service

Scottish Police Authority

National Museums of Scotland

Scottish Children's Reporter Administration

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Scottish Legal Aid Board

Scottish Natural Heritage

Skills Development Scotland

Visit Scotland

Aberdeen City Council

Aberdeenshire Council

Angus Council

Argyll and Bute Council

City of Edinburgh Council

Clackmannanshire Council

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Dundee City Council

East Ayrshire Council

East Dunbartonshire Council

East Lothian Council

East Renfrewshire Council

Falkirk Council

Fife Council

Glasgow City Council

Highland Council

Inverclyde Council

Midlothian Council

Moray Council, The

North Ayrshire Council

North Lanarkshire Council

Orkney Islands Council

Perth and Kinross Council

Renfrewshire Council

Scottish Borders Council

Shetland Islands Council

South Ayrshire Council

South Lanarkshire Council

Stirling Council

West Dunbartonshire Council

West Lothian Council

Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Service

Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service

Fife Fire and Rescue Service

Grampian Fire and Rescue Service

Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service

Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service

Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service

Tayside Fire and Rescue Service

Golden Jubilee Hospital (National Waiting Times Centre Board)

NHS 24

NHS Ayrshire and Arran

NHS Borders

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

NHS Education for Scotland

NHS Fife

NHS Forth Valley

NHS Grampian

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

NHS Health Scotland

NHS Highland

NHS Lanarkshire

NHS Lothian

NHS Orkney

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

NHS Shetland

NHS Tayside

NHS Western Isles

Scottish Ambulance Service

The Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

The State Hospital for Scotland

Fife College

Dundee & Angus College

West College Scotland

Glasgow Clyde College

Ayrshire College

Glasgow Kelvin College

Edinburgh College

City of Glasgow College

North East College Scotland

New College Lanarkshire

Scotland's Rural College

Borders College

Coatbridge College

Dumfries and Galloway College

Forth Valley College

Inverness College

Lews Castle College

Moray College

Newbattle Abbey College

North Highland College

Orkney College

Perth College

Sabhal Mor Ostaig

Shetland College

South Lanarkshire College

West Lothian College

Edinburgh Napier University

Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow School of Art

Heriot-Watt University

Queen Margaret University

Robert Gordon University

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

SRUC

UHI Millennium Institute

University of Aberdeen

University of Abertay Dundee

University of Dundee

University of Edinburgh

University of Glasgow

University of St Andrews

University of Stirling

University of Strathclyde

University of the West of Scotland

Cairngorms National Park Authority

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator

Forestry Commission Scotland

Audit Scotland

Any other Public Sector Body or associated organisation

Scottish Water

Education Scotland

Scottish Police Services Authority.

University of the Highlands and Islands

SRUC

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract
Scottish Wide Area Network.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 7: Computer and related services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Scotland & connection of associated organisations outside Scotland

NUTS code UKM

II.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement
II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
A single operator framework agreement for a Scottish Wide Area Network is being let on behalf of all Contracting Authorities in Scotland including but not limited to the Authorities listed in I.2 and successors to those bodies in functions and objectives. It is envisaged that the Framework Agreement itself may be entered into by NSS or a separately created entity on behalf of the participating Authorities. It is expected that all participating Authorities choosing to use the framework will make their own call offs based on a catalogue of services while contributing to pay for common shared core services.
 ICT in the public sector is vital for the delivery of efficient, cost effective services which are responsive to the needs of citizens and businesses, and for meeting the business needs of the organisations who are themselves responsible for service delivery.
 Working in partnership the Scottish Government and key stakeholder organisations responsible for the delivery of public services have initiated the Scottish Wide Area network (SWAN) Programme. The aim of the SWAN initiative is to deliver, a single, holistic telecommunications service available for the use of any, and potentially all, public service organisations within Scotland. SWAN will enable infrastructure and service sharing and will over time replace the existing model where individual organisations procure, implement and maintain their own network infrastructure.
 The SWAN initiative is strategically aligned with the McClelland Review of Scottish Public Sector ICT Infrastructure , taking forward its recommendations on public sector collaborative procurement, aggregation of network demand and use of common standards, and is the first major initiative to be launched by Scottish Ministers in support of the Scotland's Digital Future; Delivery of Public Services . The Local Government ICT Strategy - Delivering Better Services for Communities identifies the adoption of a Scottish Wide-Area Network as the number one action to be taken by the Scottish Local Government community.
 The McClelland Review of Scottish Public Sector ICT Infrastructure, published in June 2011 recommended that:
 - The few large and many other multiple small contracts should be aggregated to build a single Scottish Public Sector Network that adopts the standards and protocols of the UK PSN,
 - The combined spend should be leveraged to gain cost and performance advantages for the public sector,
 - This network should be used by every public sector body and university and college in Scotland.
 The Scottish Government's Response to the McClelland Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland committed to achieve better value through collaboration and sharing of ICT infrastructure and digital connectivity.
 Scotland's Digital Future: A Strategy for Scotland, published in March 2011, set out ambitions for digital connectivity, a digital economy, digital participation and digital public services, which are interdependent strands of an overall vision. The digital public services strand was further developed in Scotland's Digital Future: Delivery of Public Services, published in September 2012. That strategy set out a vision for a Scotland in which digital technology provides a foundation for integrated public services that cross organisational boundaries and deliver to those most in need, and for services for business that promote growth. One deliverable of the strategy is a public sector network which supports resilient high-volume and high-speed communication.
 The SWAN Programme is designed to deliver that single public services network in Scotland open to all public service organisations and with combined demand delivering both cost and performance advantages. Using an approach of common standards and interoperability SWAN will facilitate collaboration, locally, nationally and internationally. The infrastructure will be designed and built, in order that SWAN can support both PSN compliant services and non PSN compliant services.
 As part of the digital public services strategy SWAN supports a way in which the public services delivery sector can collaborate across organisational boundaries to ensure that the services delivered - whether at national or local level - can be truly joined up to meet the needs of the users of public services, the citizens and businesses of Scotland.
 The strategy's ambition is to ensure that Scottish public service organisations get best value for money in its investments in ICT. Collaboration is now the default choice in the design and delivery of services and in the procurement and deployment of ICT infrastructure to support this. There is also a presumption against each organisation separately pursuing investment in and ownership of ICT assets or seeking its own capability for individual development. As such, the SWAN Programme is the first major initiative to be launched by Scottish Ministers in support of the Scotland's Digital Future; Delivery of Public Services strategy and will provide the first piece of the underlying infrastructure needed to deliver on the strategies overall goals and aspirations.
 NSS and a number of other Authorities have come together to form a vanguard of Authorities who are committed to enter into call-off contracts immediately following the concluding of the Framework Agreement. To maximise the potential take up of services under the Framework Agreement participating Authorities will have a period of six years to enter into call-off contracts with the appointed provider.
 The maximum length of call offs made under the framework will be decided during the Competitive Dialogue process.

The McClelland Review is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/06/15104329/0

Scotland's Digital Future; Delivery of Public Services is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/09/6272

The Local Government ICT Strategy is available at http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/.../3728-local-government-ict-strategy-delivering-better-services-for-communities-draft-for-consultation/

The Scottish Government Response to the McClelland Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/09/21103403

II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

72000000, 72315000, 72315100, 72315200, 72511000, 72212200, 72212210, 72212214, 72212215, 72212216, 72212219, 64200000, 64227000, 71316000, 72212515, 51314000

II.1.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes
II.2)Total final value of contract(s)
II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s)
Value: 325 000 000 GBP
Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
competitive dialogue
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
1. Technical. Weighting 35
2. Commercial/ Legal. Weighting 30
3. Affordability/Price. Weighting 35
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Contract notice

Notice number in the OJEU: 2012/S 205-337492 of 24.10.2012

Section V: Award of contract

Lot title: Scottish Wide Area Network
V.1)Date of contract award decision:
14.2.2014
V.2)Information about offers
Number of offers received: 3
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

Capita Business Services Ltd
Tannochside Park , Ellismuir Way
G71 5PW Uddingston
UNITED KINGDOM
Internet address: http://www.capita.co.uk/itservices

V.4)Information on value of contract
Initial estimated total value of the contract:
Value: 325 000 000 GBP
Excluding VAT
Total final value of the contract:
Value: 325 000 000 GBP
V.5)Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about European Union funds
VI.2)Additional information:
(SC Ref:297138)
VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: An economic operator that suffers, or risks suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/88) may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
12.3.2014