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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: UK SBS CS18042 – UK Space Agency Critical Services Dependency Mapping
2. Awarding Authority:
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
North Star House

SWINDON
England
SN21FF
Contact: Core Services
Email: professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk
Phone: 01793 867005
URL: www.uksbs.co.uk
3. Contract Type: Services
4. Description: The Final date and time for the submission of bids is 15/02/2019 @ 14:00hrs ****Do Not Apply Directly to the Buyer**** All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

UK Space Agency (UKSA) is responsible for ensuring that the UK retains and grows a strategic capability in space-based systems, technologies, science and applications. The UKSA leads the UK’s civil space programme in order to win sustainable economic growth, secure new scientific knowledge and provide benefit to all citizens. Space was designated part of the UK Critical National Infrastructure (There are 13 CNI sectors in total) in 2015. This designation recognised that space provides essential services to other CNI sectors, namely; navigation and timing services, long distance communications, weather forecasting and monitoring of the environment. These services are a key part of life in modern society, but often deeply embedded so that many users do not recognise their space dependencies.

As the CNI Lead Government Department for space the UKSA needs to understand what the critical assets and services within the sector and require study on the dependencies on space-based assets and services across the UK CNI sectors.

This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the ITQ document.

How to Apply:

As part of the strategic alliance between UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), UK SBS will be using the CCS eSourcing Suite for this procurement.

To register on the CCS eSourcing portal please follow the details contained within the Additional Information section of this notice.

If you are already registered on the CCS eSourcing portal and wish to register your interest in this opportunity please email; expressionofinterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Your email must clearly state:
• the name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for;
• the name of the registered Bidder;
• the name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email.
5. CPV Codes:
71241000 – Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis
71620000 – Analysis services
72221000 – Business analysis consultancy services
73000000 – Research and development services and related consultancy services
6. NUTS Codes: UKK14
7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: Any region
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority:
UK SBS CS18042 – UK Space Agency Critical Services Dependency Mapping
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: £125,000
10. Start Date: 28/02/2019
11. End Date: 30/06/2019
12. Closing Date: 15/02/2019
13. Other Information:
Additional Text
DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO BUYER

All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts)

Responses must be received by the date in the bid documents.

Responses received outside or concurrently using the eSourcing process will not be accepted or considered further for this opportunity.

How to Register on the CCS eSourcing Suite

Full details of this opportunity can be found on the e-sourcing portal please follow instructions below. If you have not yet registered on the eSourcing Suite, this can be done online at by following the link ‘Register for CCS eSourcing’.

Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.

Once you have registered on the eSourcing Suite, a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement. This is done by emailing expressionofinterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Your email must clearly state:
• name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for;
• name of the registered Bidder;
• name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email.

Crown Commercial Service will process the email and then enable the Bidder to access the procurement online via the e-Sourcing Suite. The registered user will receive a notification email to alert them once this has been done. The Sourcing documents can then be accessed on the eSourcing Suite at: using the instructions detailed in the Specification documents within Contracts Finder.

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Please note it is your responsibility to access these emails on a regular basis to ensure you have sight of all relevant information.

For technical assistance on use of the e-Sourcing Suite please contact Crown Commercial Service Helpdesk: Telephone: 0345 010 3503

Training documents to support Bidders to utilise Emptoris CCS eSourcing are available in the Contracts Finder Tender documents section.

About UK Shared Business Services

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