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If you are here looking to procure video conferencing software to support you in your response to the COVID-19 outbreak, please see the advice here |
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The following section tries to anticipate some of the common scenarios you will face as a buyer and offers some simple guidance about what activities you need to undertake to address them on behalf of your stakeholders and users.
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If you wish to order these services select the Catalogue Solution(s) you require from those available [PL1] and liaise with the supplier of that Catalogue Solution to place your order and arrange their deployment to you. Further information regarding the solutions available to you may be found [here].
If you wish to order a solution which is not subject to a central contract then you will need to purchase this yourself using the standard purchasing procedures.
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For information about the procurement procedures see:
[Direct Award -> link]
Note that there are financial limits to the contracts placed using the Direct Award process. Where your requirement breaches these you must conduct either
[On-Catalogue Further Competition -> link] for non-Foundation Solutions, or otherwise conduct a an Off Catalogue Further Competion Competition
As indicated above, it may be the case that you do not have the option to avoid conducting a competitive process where a Foundation Solution contract breaches the financial limits for accessing the Direct Award procedure.
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[On-Catalogue Further Competition -> link] for non-Foundation Solutions, or otherwise conduct a Further Competion Competition
As indicated above, it may be the case that you do not have the option to avoid conducting a competitive process where a Foundation Solution contract breaches the financial limits for accessing the Direct Award procedure.
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