Provision of services to the community

Tender description

The City of London Corporation (‘the City’) invited tenders for the provision of a consultancy to provide an Executive Team (ET) to manage the Cheapside Business Alliance (the Business Improvement District (BID)) for a 5-year term from 1 April 2020 until 31 March 2025, on completion of a successful second term ballot. The City is the BID Body for the BID and the formal BID Proposer. The ET will be responsible for the strategic and day-to-day operation of the BID based on the approved Cheapside Business Alliance Business Plan (delivering a range of activities under 5 key themes). Please note that this is an award notice and the opportunity is now closed. Please note that this is an award notice and the opportunity is now closed. The services procured from the proposed contract are classified under Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as ‘Provision of services to the community’. Therefore, the services advertised in the Official Journal of the European (OJEU) contract notice fall among those listed in Annex XIV to Directive 2014/24/EU and the full obligations set out in that directive do not apply. For the avoidance of doubt, the contract is procured in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Regulations 74 to 78, more commonly known as the Light Touch Regime. The precise procurement process to be used was described in the procurement documents. The procurement ran as a one stage process, resembling the open procedure and its main features — which includes the core elements of the standard selection questionnaire (SQ). Any organisation that considered itself able to meet the requirements of the selection criteria within the qualification envelope was invited to submit a tender. The description of the cheapside business improvement district service was set out in the procurement documents, particularly the specification — available from: https://www.capitalesourcing.com The duration of the contract is five (5) years and organisations should note that the maximum budget for this service will be up to GBP 550 000. The estimated total value of the contract is also stated in II.1.5) and II.2.6) of this notice and is for the entire duration. Organisations were made aware that due to the contract value (of the service), any contract formed as a result of this procurement process was to be executed as a deed. Organisations were advised to seek independent legal advice on the implications of this prior to submitting their tender, where appropriate.