CCS will host a series of market engagement events to be held no later than September 2018 at which participating organisations will be engaged to elaborate their thinking.
To participate in market engagement please email paymentsin@crowncommercial.gov.uk by the 24.8.2018 the subject heading of the email should be “Payments Acceptance Event”.
Please include the following details:
1) Organisation name;
2) Contact name;
3) Job title of contact (including responsibility within your organisation);
4) Contact phone number;
5) Contact email;
6) Organisation website link.
Based on the criteria outlined in II.2.4) and at your discretion, we propose that you attach a summary (less 400 words) to your email outlining how you could potentially meet some or all of these initial requirements by the 24.8.2018.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk.
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.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS pipeline page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk for updates and monitor Tenders Electronic Daily for the publication of the OJEU contract notice.
Please be advised that in preparation to participate in this competition for this framework that:The Cyber Essentials scheme is mandatory for Central Government Contracts which involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The level of Cyber Essential required will be determined after market engagement.
The services that arise from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of OFFICIAL. It will be a condition of this contract that this material must be protected. Baseline protection controls are defined in ISO27001:2013 and further defined by the Security Policy Framework https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-security.