Notice Information
Notice Title
Invitation to Tender for the Provision of Web Services
Notice Description
The provision of web services to the orkney.com website for up to 3 years with 2 x 12 extensions available.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Orkney Islands Council (OIC) and Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) work in partnership to support key sectors and companies of growth to market their products and services through the jointly funded Orkney Marketing programme. For the purposes of this contract OIC will act as the contracting authority while HIE will be the lead contact for the management of the contract. Submissions are invited from contractors who can provide web service for the orkney.com website. The contract will initially be for 3 years (1 August 2024 to 31 July 2027) with a further 2 x 12 months subject to availability of budgets. There will also be break clauses at Year 1 and Year 2 which will only be applied if funding for year 2 or year 3 becomes unavailable - Contractors will be advised of any changes by 24 December 2024 (year 2) and 24 December 2025 (year 3).
Renewal: Initial term of 24 months with 2 x 12 month extensions (subject to funding)
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0469e5
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007247-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72212224 - Web page editing software development services
72413000 - World wide web (www) site design services
72415000 - World wide web (www) site operation host services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £214,500 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 26 Feb 202512 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 21 Jun 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 7 Aug 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- 31 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2027 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- ORKNEY ISLANDS COUNCIL
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Denise Link
- Contact Email
- denise.link@orkney.gov.uk, hieprocurement@hient.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 01856873535, +44 1463383084
Buyer Location
- Locality
- KIRKWALL
- Postcode
- KW15 1NY
- Post Town
- Kirkwall
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM2 Highlands and Islands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM20 Highlands and Islands
- Delivery Location
- TLM65 Orkney Islands
-
- Local Authority
- Highland
- Electoral Ward
- Inverness South
- Westminster Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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