Decision details

To discontinue the procurement procedure for provision of a Data Architecture Solution.

It became clear throughout the evaluation process that some of the award questions led to common misinterpretation, and this has unduly affected the scores of all submitted responses.

The Council intends to review and amend the award questions. The Council also intends to use this opportunity to review the clarification questions and responses that were received and issued during the further competition period to determine where amendments can be made to the specification.

For the purposes of this decision note ‘discontinuing’ the procurement is cancelling or abandoning the procurement and is considered to be one and the same.

Continue with the procurement procedure, but with concerns around successful delivery due to common misinterpretations of several questions and this has unduly affected the scores. For this reason, continuing with the procurement was not considered viable as it is essential that the Council has confidence that the required outcomes are delivered.