Award

Proc 645 Digital Interviewing

HOME OFFICE

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

30 Mar 2022 at 12:13

Tender

22 Jun 2021 at 21:45

Summary of the contracting process

The Home Office, a UK government ministry located in Croydon, has completed a procurement process for the "Proc 645 Digital Interviewing" project, which falls under the services industry category, specifically focused on the development of transaction processing and custom software. The tender, initiated using a selective procurement method with a Restricted Procedure, aimed to appoint a capable provider for a Digital Interviewing solution. The project period covers operational services from January 2022 to December 2023. Relevant details include a final contract value of approximately £1,861,264.68, with the final award being active.

This tender presents a substantial opportunity for businesses specialising in software development, particularly those with experience in digital interviewing solutions and cloud services. Companies that provide digital audio recording software, interview record management systems, and cloud storage solutions would be particularly well-suited to compete. The procurement process is geared towards identifying experienced suppliers that can deliver high-quality technological solutions, thus creating avenues for growth for software firms within the UK’s public sector landscape.

Find more tenders on our Open Data Platform.
How relevant is this notice?

D3 Tenders Premium

Win More Public Sector Contracts

AI-powered tender discovery, pipeline management, and market intelligence — everything you need to grow your public sector business.

Notice Title

Proc 645 Digital Interviewing

Notice Description

The Authority has undertaken this tender exercise to appoint suitably capable and experienced provider of a Digital Interviewing solution. It has utilised the Restricted Procedure, a multi-stage procurement process intended to short list qualified bidders, who where in turn invited to tender for the contract opportunity.

Lot Information

Lot 1

igital Interviewing is used by the Home Office Visas & Immigration Directorate to gather additional information to support a visa application or asylum claim. Interviews are currently carried out in-person and as remote interviews (via telephone or video links). Other areas of the Home Office also use interviewing to different extents. This notice relates specifically to delivering a continuous operational service for Asylum and V&C Operations from January 2022 to 2023. The core components of the project include: * Digital Audio Recording Software; Capture the audio from all participants whether they are present in the host room or joining remotely via MS Teams. It will allow control of the audio (e.g. pause) during the interview and will link to the Interview Record Forms software. * Interview Records Software: Capture typed information during the interview in relation to the interview including information about the interview, the participants and the questions, statements and response made during the interview. * Cloud Hosted Storage: The audio record and the interview record forms will be saved and stored to cloud-hosted storage on completion of the interview or, if offline, when later connected to the network * Management Information: The solution must provide reports of all digital interviews undertaken with filtering and sorting by all metadata data captured during interviewing and any automatically applied grouped by business area/team responsible. * RBAC: The solution shall have Role-based User Access Control which will allow specific user roles to be defined - each with a specific set of permissions within the system * Auto Transcription: Provision of automated transcripts from the recorded interview audio including all audio spoken during the interview in the English language only.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-02bf26
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008543-2022
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Restricted procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support


CPV Codes

72232000 - Development of transaction processing and custom software

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£2,500,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£2,500,000 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£1,861,264 £1M-£10M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
30 Mar 20223 years ago
Submission Deadline
25 Jun 2021Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
24 Dec 20214 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
HOME OFFICE
Contact Name
Ben Spencer, Zobair Mehmood
Contact Email
benjaminluke.spencer@homeoffice.gov.uk, zobair.mehmood@homeoffice.gov.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
CROYDON
Postcode
CR0 2EU
Post Town
Croydon
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI6 Outer London - South
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI62 Croydon
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Croydon
Electoral Ward
Fairfield
Westminster Constituency
Croydon West

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

BUSINESS SYSTEMS (UK

Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)

View full OCDS Record for this contracting process

Download

The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.

{
    "tag": [
        "compiled"
    ],
    "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-02bf26-2022-03-30T13:13:05+01:00",
    "date": "2022-03-30T13:13:05+01:00",
    "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-02bf26",
    "initiationType": "tender",
    "tender": {
        "id": "C20887 (Proc 645)",
        "legalBasis": {
            "id": "32014L0024",
            "scheme": "CELEX"
        },
        "title": "Proc 645 Digital Interviewing",
        "status": "complete",
        "classification": {
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "id": "72232000",
            "description": "Development of transaction processing and custom software"
        },
        "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
        "description": "The Authority has undertaken this tender exercise to appoint suitably capable and experienced provider of a Digital Interviewing solution. It has utilised the Restricted Procedure, a multi-stage procurement process intended to short list qualified bidders, who where in turn invited to tender for the contract opportunity.",
        "value": {
            "amount": 2500000,
            "currency": "GBP"
        },
        "lots": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "description": "igital Interviewing is used by the Home Office Visas & Immigration Directorate to gather additional information to support a visa application or asylum claim. Interviews are currently carried out in-person and as remote interviews (via telephone or video links). Other areas of the Home Office also use interviewing to different extents. This notice relates specifically to delivering a continuous operational service for Asylum and V&C Operations from January 2022 to 2023. The core components of the project include: * Digital Audio Recording Software; Capture the audio from all participants whether they are present in the host room or joining remotely via MS Teams. It will allow control of the audio (e.g. pause) during the interview and will link to the Interview Record Forms software. * Interview Records Software: Capture typed information during the interview in relation to the interview including information about the interview, the participants and the questions, statements and response made during the interview. * Cloud Hosted Storage: The audio record and the interview record forms will be saved and stored to cloud-hosted storage on completion of the interview or, if offline, when later connected to the network * Management Information: The solution must provide reports of all digital interviews undertaken with filtering and sorting by all metadata data captured during interviewing and any automatically applied grouped by business area/team responsible. * RBAC: The solution shall have Role-based User Access Control which will allow specific user roles to be defined - each with a specific set of permissions within the system * Auto Transcription: Provision of automated transcripts from the recorded interview audio including all audio spoken during the interview in the English language only.",
                "value": {
                    "amount": 2500000,
                    "currency": "GBP"
                },
                "contractPeriod": {
                    "durationInDays": 1080
                },
                "hasRenewal": false,
                "secondStage": {
                    "minimumCandidates": 4,
                    "maximumCandidates": 4
                },
                "selectionCriteria": {
                    "description": "The ITT Evaluation approach is detailed in the procurement documentation, which will be available to suppliers who express interest as per the process set out above. ITT responses will be evaluated, and the 4 x Bidders with the highest scores will be invited to a final round of Bidder presentations, where an additional 15% of the total evaluation mark is available. Following Bidder presentations, the final combined score will be used to identify the preferred Bidder."
                },
                "submissionTerms": {
                    "variantPolicy": "notAllowed"
                },
                "hasOptions": false,
                "status": "cancelled",
                "awardCriteria": {
                    "criteria": [
                        {
                            "name": "Technical",
                            "type": "quality",
                            "description": "70%"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "Presentation",
                            "type": "quality",
                            "description": "10%"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "Price",
                            "type": "quality",
                            "description": "30%"
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "price",
                            "description": "100"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        ],
        "items": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "deliveryAddresses": [
                    {
                        "region": "UK"
                    },
                    {
                        "region": "UK"
                    }
                ],
                "deliveryLocation": {
                    "description": "CR0 2EU"
                },
                "relatedLot": "1",
                "additionalClassifications": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "CPV",
                        "id": "72232000",
                        "description": "Development of transaction processing and custom software"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "participationFees": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "type": [
                    "document"
                ]
            }
        ],
        "submissionMethod": [
            "electronicSubmission",
            "written"
        ],
        "submissionMethodDetails": "https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com",
        "documents": [
            {
                "id": "economic",
                "documentType": "economicSelectionCriteria"
            },
            {
                "id": "technical",
                "documentType": "technicalSelectionCriteria"
            }
        ],
        "contractTerms": {
            "performanceTerms": "contract performance requirements are set out within the draft contract and relevant schedules. N.B. the draft Contract is based on the Crown Mid-Tier Model contract",
            "hasElectronicOrdering": true,
            "electronicInvoicingPolicy": "allowed",
            "hasElectronicPayment": true
        },
        "procurementMethod": "selective",
        "procurementMethodDetails": "Restricted procedure",
        "procedure": {
            "isAccelerated": true,
            "acceleratedRationale": "PIN previously published (reference CF-0160200D58000000L5A4EAK1), and the Authority is using electronic tendering via its e-Sourcing portal."
        },
        "coveredBy": [
            "GPA"
        ],
        "tenderPeriod": {
            "endDate": "2021-06-25T23:59:00+01:00"
        },
        "secondStage": {
            "invitationDate": "2021-07-26T00:00:00+01:00"
        },
        "submissionTerms": {
            "languages": [
                "en"
            ],
            "bidValidityPeriod": {
                "durationInDays": 180
            }
        },
        "hasRecurrence": false
    },
    "parties": [
        {
            "id": "GB-FTS-20263",
            "name": "Home Office",
            "identifier": {
                "legalName": "Home Office"
            },
            "address": {
                "locality": "Croydon",
                "region": "UK",
                "postalCode": "CR0 2EU",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom"
            },
            "contactPoint": {
                "name": "Ben Spencer",
                "email": "benjaminluke.spencer@homeoffice.gov.uk",
                "url": "https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com"
            },
            "roles": [
                "buyer"
            ],
            "details": {
                "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office",
                "classifications": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE",
                        "id": "MINISTRY",
                        "description": "Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "COFOG",
                        "description": "Immigration, Citizenship and Borders"
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "GB-FTS-20264",
            "name": "Secretary of State for the Home Department (Commercial Directorate)",
            "identifier": {
                "legalName": "Secretary of State for the Home Department (Commercial Directorate)"
            },
            "address": {
                "streetAddress": "2 Marsham Street",
                "locality": "London",
                "postalCode": "SW1P 4DF",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom"
            },
            "roles": [
                "reviewBody"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "GB-FTS-48353",
            "name": "Home Office",
            "identifier": {
                "legalName": "Home Office"
            },
            "address": {
                "streetAddress": "Home Office",
                "locality": "Croydon",
                "region": "UK",
                "postalCode": "CR0 2EU",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom"
            },
            "contactPoint": {
                "name": "Zobair Mehmood",
                "email": "zobair.mehmood@homeoffice.gov.uk"
            },
            "roles": [
                "buyer"
            ],
            "details": {
                "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office",
                "buyerProfile": "https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com",
                "classifications": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE",
                        "id": "MINISTRY",
                        "description": "Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "COFOG",
                        "description": "Immigration, Citizenship and Borders"
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "GB-FTS-48354",
            "name": "Business Systems (UK) Ltd",
            "identifier": {
                "legalName": "Business Systems (UK) Ltd",
                "id": "2199582"
            },
            "address": {
                "streetAddress": "462 London Road",
                "locality": "Isleworth",
                "region": "UK",
                "postalCode": "TW7 4ED",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom"
            },
            "roles": [
                "supplier"
            ],
            "details": {
                "scale": "large"
            }
        }
    ],
    "buyer": {
        "id": "GB-FTS-48353",
        "name": "Home Office"
    },
    "language": "en",
    "awards": [
        {
            "id": "008543-2022-Proc 645-1",
            "relatedLots": [
                "1"
            ],
            "title": "Digital Interviewing",
            "status": "active",
            "suppliers": [
                {
                    "id": "GB-FTS-48354",
                    "name": "Business Systems (UK) Ltd"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "contracts": [
        {
            "id": "008543-2022-Proc 645-1",
            "awardID": "008543-2022-Proc 645-1",
            "title": "Digital Interviewing",
            "status": "active",
            "value": {
                "amount": 1861264.68,
                "currency": "GBP"
            },
            "dateSigned": "2021-12-24T00:00:00Z"
        }
    ],
    "bids": {
        "statistics": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "measure": "bids",
                "relatedLot": "1",
                "value": 6
            },
            {
                "id": "2",
                "measure": "smeBids",
                "relatedLot": "1",
                "value": 1
            },
            {
                "id": "3",
                "measure": "foreignBidsFromEU",
                "relatedLot": "1",
                "value": 1
            },
            {
                "id": "4",
                "measure": "foreignBidsFromNonEU",
                "relatedLot": "1",
                "value": 1
            },
            {
                "id": "5",
                "measure": "electronicBids",
                "relatedLot": "1",
                "value": 6
            }
        ]
    }
}