Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Procurement Services, 1st Floor South, Greenwich House, Madingley Rise
Cambridge
CB3 0TX
UK
Contact person: Tom Twitchett
E-mail: purchasing.intend@admin.cam.ac.uk
NUTS: UKH1
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofcambridge
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other: Higher Education/Research
I.5) Main activity
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
UCAM 047/17 For the provision of a Financial Corporate Management Solution
Reference number: UCAM 047/17
II.1.2) Main CPV code
48000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
The University has a need to replace a number of disparate solutions that all rely to varying degrees on manual intervention and data manipulation to achieve financial reporting, consolidation, budgeting and forecasting requirements.
There are 3 main drivers for this:
a) the need to support the Financial Reporting processes effectively, providing a clear audit trail for data which is transparent and understood by all involved;
b) the current University planning & analysis tool was developed in-house and has reached end of life. It can be supported for another 5 years but cannot be developed or amended during this timeframe;
c) receive high quality understandable reporting proportionate to the size and complexity of the University boundaries and users information needs.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48100000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKH12
Main site or place of performance:
Cambridge.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The University has a need to replace a number of disparate solutions that all rely to varying degrees on manual intervention and data manipulation to achieve financial reporting, consolidation, budgeting and forecasting requirements.
There are 3 main drivers for this:
a) the need to support the Financial Reporting processes effectively, providing a clear audit trail for data which is transparent and understood by all involved;
b) the current University planning & analysis tool was developed in-house and has reached end of life. It can be supported for another 5 years but cannot be developed or amended during this timeframe;
c) receive high quality understandable reporting proportionate to the size and complexity of the University boundaries and users information needs.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical ability
/ Weighting: 40 %
Quality criterion: Vendor experience of sector
/ Weighting: 10 %
Quality criterion: Interview
/ Weighting: 10 %
Price
/ Weighting:
40 %
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
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
No
V.1 Information on non-award
The contract/lot is not awarded
Other reasons (discontinuation of procedure)
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
General Information and Instructions:
1.1. The University of Cambridge is not a public body within the meaning of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU) and is not subject to the European procurement legislation. Where the University advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. The University reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as the University considers necessary.
1.2. The University reserves the right to accept any part of any tender. Information about the tender process to be followed does not amount to a legally binding offer by the University to follow the process so described. The University reserves the right not to follow or to modify the procedures as the University considers necessary.
1.3. Tenders shall be submitted in accordance with and subject to the terms of these Instructions. Tenders not complying with any mandatory requirement (indicated by the word “shall” or “must”) may be rejected by the University acting in its sole discretion.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Procurement Services, 1st Floor South, Greenwich House, Madingley Rise
Cambridge
CB3 0TX
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/02/2018