SPOGO: UK – Development and delivery of the next generation spogo multi-channel managed service

UK-London: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Sport England
      3rd Floor, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4SE, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 20723835740, URL: www.sportengland.org, URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com Access Code: 275RXZRS7H
      Contact: https://www.delta-esourcing.com Access Code: 275RXZRS7H, Attn: Nick Evans
      Electronic Access URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com Access Code: 275RXZRS7H
      Electronic Submission URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com Access Code: 275RXZRS7H

      Further information can be obtained at: As Above       
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above       
      Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above       
   
   I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
      Body governed by public law

   I.3) Main activity:
      Other: Grant Awarding Body

   I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities:
      The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: Yes

Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: UK – Development and delivery of the next generation spogo multi-channel managed service
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 27

         Region Codes: UK - UNITED KINGDOM         
      II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:The notice involves a public contract                                                       
      
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support. Printed matter and related products. IT software package. Content management software package. Travel agency, tour operator and tourist assistance services. Postal and telecommunications services. Internet and intranet software development services. System, storage and content management software development services. Data services. Data-processing services. Data capture services. Data collection and collation services. Data analysis services. Added-value database services. Data management services. Content or data standardisation and classification services. Application service providers. Internet development services. Internet or intranet client application development services. Internet or intranet server application development services. Administration, defence and social security services. Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security. Advertising and marketing services. Marketing services. Customer services. Recreational, cultural and sporting services. Sporting services. Sport-related services. Other community, social and personal services. Software package and information systems. Sport England is seeking an innovative private sector partner or partners by way of a pre determined consortium arrangement with a lead contracting party (“the Service Provider”) to participate and invest in the development and operation of a viable and sustainable multichannel managed service (for which a pilot has been developed by Sport England to date under the project name, spogo (" herein referred to as the Project")) in partnership with Sport England.

The contract term will be for an initial period of 5 years with periodic options to extend (exercisable in accordance with the terms of the partnering contract and in line with pre-agreed performance criteria being met) up to a maximum period of 15 years.

It is expected that any amount made available by Sport England for priming the Project will be recovered by Sport England from income generated by the Service Provider during the initial five year period of the contract.

It is anticipated that the Project will involve spogo being developed further by the Service Provider to ultimately deliver a solution which enables the general public to find venues and scheduled activities, in order to engage in sporting and physical activities across England and to facilitate the online booking of such sport and physical activities. The aim of spogo is to contribute to increasing the general public's participation in sport and physical activities.

The core technical solution ("the Solution") to be provided by the Service Provider shall include as a minimum, but shall not be limited to:

-   A desktop and mobile consumer website for the general public to find sports and physical activities and facilitate their booking, also delivering rich targeted content to end-users
-   A web Application Programming Interface (API) exposing the core sports and physical activities finder and content syndication provided by the technical solution
-   Website widgets and/or white label websites for easy integration of the functionality into existing websites or as a branded website
-   A B2B self-service website and data provision web API for sports and physical activities data providers as well as third party tools providers to feed and manage their data
-   A regular Open Data extract of the relevant data managed by the service

The Services to be provided by the private sector partner shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following ("the Services"):

-   Agile software development and application management
-   Infrastructure provision and management
-   Marketing, content management and SEO services
-   Customer services
-   Data management
-   Sports sector relationship management (sports and activities providers as well as third party tools providers)
-   Revenue management
-   Project Management including day to day operational management up to, including and beyond the build and implementation phases


Due to the nature of the Project, there are likely to be directly relevant technological advances during the term of the contract and it shall therefore be necessary to revise any baseline technological specification in line with such advancements. Sport England therefore reserves the right to reflect (by way of a pre-agreed change mechanism) a revised specification which reflects the general level of technological advancements in relation to products and services similar to (or replacing) any such baseline technological specification.

The Service should also be able to produce data that will then be consumed into a separate insights generation system. Such data will include raw data to generate statistics on the use of the Service.

The current pilot service is called spogo and specific elements of it will be made available to the Service Provider if requested: The following elements have been identified at this point in time:
a.   The branding work that has been done on the spogo branding, colour schemes, etc. should be reused
b.   NGBs and clubs data as it has been significantly improved via the spogo pilot

The current pilot service is a website that can be accessed at this address: www.spogo.co.uk

The preferred option for Sport England is to select a Service Provider. Consortium bids will however be acceptable if submitted with a single leading contracting entity.

The contract will be available for use by UK Sport, Sportscotland, Sports Council for Wales and Sport Northern Ireland and Local Authorities.

Further details in relation to the Project are included within the Memorandum of Information. Please see section I.1.2 for details of how to obtain the Memorandum of Information and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire or go to https://www.delta-esourcing.com Access Code: 275RXZRS7H
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support.
         
         22000000 - Printed matter and related products.
         
         48517000 - IT software package.
         
         48783000 - Content management software package.
         
         63500000 - Travel agency, tour operator and tourist assistance services.
         
         64000000 - Postal and telecommunications services.
         
         72212220 - Internet and intranet software development services.
         
         72212780 - System, storage and content management software development services.
         
         72300000 - Data services.
         
         72310000 - Data-processing services.
         
         72313000 - Data capture services.
         
         72314000 - Data collection and collation services.
         
         72316000 - Data analysis services.
         
         72321000 - Added-value database services.
         
         72322000 - Data management services.
         
         72330000 - Content or data standardisation and classification services.
         
         72416000 - Application service providers.
         
         72420000 - Internet development services.
         
         72421000 - Internet or intranet client application development services.
         
         72422000 - Internet or intranet server application development services.
         
         75000000 - Administration, defence and social security services.
         
         79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security.
         
         79340000 - Advertising and marketing services.
         
         79342000 - Marketing services.
         
         79342300 - Customer services.
         
         92000000 - Recreational, cultural and sporting services.
         
         92600000 - Sporting services.
         
         92620000 - Sport-related services.
         
         98000000 - Other community, social and personal services.
         
         48000000 - Software package and information systems.
         

      II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Yes       
      II.1.8)Lots:
         This contract is divided into lots: No
      II.1.9)Information about variants:
         Variants will be accepted: Yes    
   
   II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
      II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
      The contract term will be for an initial period of 5 years with periodic options to extend (exercisable in accordance with the terms of the partnering contract and in line with pre-agreed performance criteria being met) up to a maximum period of 15 years.

The value of the contract cannot be accurately determined at this stage as it will be dependent on the success of the Service Provider’s engagement with the market. Sport England’s preference is for a solution that will allow any initial investment to be recouped through future revenue. It is currently anticipated that a sum of approximately £1.65m will be available for priming the project. It is expected that this amount will be recovered by Sport England from income generated by the Service Provider during the initial five year period of the contract.         
         Estimated value excluding VAT: 1,650,000
         Currency: GBP
                        
      
      II.2.2)Options: Not Provided         
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
                  
      If known, in the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time-frame for subsequent contracts:
         Duration in months: 120
         
   II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion      
         Duration in months: 180 (from the award of the contract)

   Information About Lots
               
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information
   III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
      III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
      Sport England reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds, insurance cover and/or other forms of security cover it deems appropriate.
      
      III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
      As detailed in the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      Sport England is seeking a private sector partner or partners to participate and invest in the Project. Where there is the adoption of a supply chain solution then the contracting authority reserves the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require a single contractor to take primary liability or to require that each party takes joint or several liability.
      
      III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
         The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions:Yes       
      If Yes, description of particular conditions:
      Yes, as detailed in the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue      
   III.2)Conditions For Participation
      III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:

      In accordance with Articles 45 – 50 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulations 23 – 25 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire available at the https://www.delta-esourcing.com Access Code : 275RXZRS7H      
      III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
         Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:         
         (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
         (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
         (c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         In accordance with Article 47 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulation 24 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire available at the URL set out in section I.1.2         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Please refer to the Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) document
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         In accordance with Article 47 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulation 25 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire available at the URL set out in section I.1.2         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Please refer to the Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) document      
      III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: Not Provided   
   III.3)Conditions Specific To Service Contracts
      III.3.1)Information about a particular profession:
         Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No       
      III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
         Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: No
Section IV: Procedure
   IV.1)Type Of Procedure
      IV.1.1)Type of procedure: Competitive Dialogue
      
      IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
                        Envisaged minimum number: 3 and maximum number: 4         
         Objective Criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
         As detailed in the Invitation to Participate Documents      
      IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue: Yes    
   IV.2)Award Criteria
      IV.2.1)Award criteria:      
         The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
            The criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

      IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction:
         An electronic auction will be used: No       

   IV.3)Administrative Information
      IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: SE524      
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Yes
         Prior information notice
            Notice number in OJEU: 2012/S 232 - 381947 of 01/12/2012
               
         Other previous publications: No                

      IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

      Date: 29/07/2013
      Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 17:00
         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 05/08/2013
         Time: 12:00      
      IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 16/09/2013      
      IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:         English
         


Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: Not Provided
   VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
      The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: Not Provided      
   VI.3)Additional Information: A Memorandum of Information is available via the contact point. Two open days have been conducted and videos and copies of the presentations are available at the following URL: http://www.sportengland.org/about-us/corporate-information/tenders-contracts/

Variants will be accepted subject to Sport England's minimum requirements (as set out within the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue) being met.

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-IT-services:-consulting%2C-software-development%2C-Internet-and-support./275RXZRS7H

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/275RXZRS7H
GO-2013628-PRO-4914395 TKR-2013628-PRO-4914394
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Not Provided

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Not Provided

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 28/06/2013

ANNEX A

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         1: Contracting Authority
      See II.1.5
      See II.1.5, See II.1.5, United Kingdom