Clarifications

Cyber Essentials cover would relate to the IT/business services deployed in your organisation and future services as and when they become applicable.

When you reach the 'agreeing' stage within your application, you will be asked to tick a box to electronically sign the DPS appointment form, this confirms that you are happy with the DPS terms. Additionally, at call off stage there may be consultations of customer considerations/special terms added.

The compliance offer will be the main point of contact for CCS to get in touch with in regards to insurance/cyber essentials certificate renewals, annual self audit certificates and other compliance areas.

You may select any example that best displays your organisation's capability to provide relevant services. This question is aiming to ensure commercial capability rather than technical quality, as technical quality must be assessed by the buyer at call off stage, through a further competition. If you are not able to disclose the value of the contract please either place a nominal £1 or please state N/A. Please reference the reason for this (i.e that the information is commercially sensitive) in the contract description.

We can confirm that, as per paragraph 72 of the DPS Needs document, you are not required to answer Q134 or Q135. You therefore are only required, as a minimum, to answer Q133 and Q179. Again, as a minimum you are required to upload documentary evidence for at least one relevant principal contract for goods and/or services provided in the last three years at Q179. If you have further certificates of completion these can be uploaded at Q180 and Q181.

Response has been given

CCS confirm we do not have a template to upload.You are required to upload documentary evidence for at least one relevant principal contract for goods and/or services provided in the last three years at Q179. If you have further certificates of completion these can be uploaded at Q180 and Q181.

CCS can confirm your answers to Cyber Essentials 155, 156 are sufficient. Please answer the NHS questions as applicable to your organisation, these are not pass/fall questions as part of the selection criteria.

A customer will create a supplier shortlist specific to their competition. They will then issue their specification and other documentation to the shortlisted suppliers once they have filtered for their requirements. This can either be done by CCS eSourcing or through the customers own procurement tool.

Unfortunately the selection questionnaire will not accept non-UK postcodes. Please enter the following as a workaround: M4 5DH. We can make an offline copy of the relevant equivalent.

Please refer to PPN04/15 (supplier past performance). This includes a certificate of past performance in Annex F. This can be used as a template/structure. Please use the following link to access to PPN: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/417211/PPN04-15_Supplier_Past_Performance_.pdf

This should be relevant in regards to having a similar scope or similar primary services to the DPS. The scope of the DPS can be found in in DPS schedule 1 - Specification, in Bid Pack part 2.

You are required to upload documentary evidence for at least one relevant principal contract for goods and/or services provided in the last three years at Q179. If you have further certificates of completion these can be uploaded at Q180 and Q181.

CCS Can confirm you were appointed on to the Space Enabled DPS as of 01/11/21

1. Joint Schedule 12 (Supply Chain Visibility) requires a successful supplier to advertise on Contracts Finder any new subcontracting opportunities valued above a minimum threshold of £25,000 that arise after contract award. The clause does not apply to subcontracts that were arranged or existed prior to the award of the contract, i.e. when a prime contractor has established its supply-chain as part of the tender process. 2. Joint Schedule 11 requires a supplier to designate a Data Protection Officer if required by the Data Protection Legislation. If your organisation isn't required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under the Legislation please provide the name and contact details of a relevant contact within your organisation, this may be an equivalent role and/or a contact from whom information may be obtained if required.

The Marketing Contact would be used if there is engagement required for marketing activities such as the creation of case studies or the use of the CCS Brand.

All sections within the SQ (Selection Questionnaire, first questionnaire of two) are fixed and cannot be changed after being submitted. The DPSQ questionnaire (DPS Questionnaire, second of two) is sub-divided into two registers, with the register 2 including both the filter choices and the contact details for all roles. Every item in the register 2 of the DPSQ questionnaire can be resubmitted, and you will be asked to re-accept the declaration upon completion. In this way you can maintain details as up to date as possible.

The Supplier shall provide a suitably qualified nominated contact (the "DPS Agreement Manager") who will take overall responsibility for delivering the Goods and/or Services required within this Contract, as well as a suitably qualified deputy to act in their absence. In the event that CCS and the Supplier are unable to agree a resolution for a dispute the matter shall be referred to the DPS Authorised Representative. The DPS Agreement Manager will therefore be the main point of contact for buyers wishing to call-off and invite shortlisted suppliers to compete.

The DPS Appointment Form can be found within the Bid Pack at Attachment 7 - Bid pack Part 2 (Terms and Conditions)

We can confirm that there is no set character limit for Q.133 within the Selection Questionnaire. The minimum character criteria for the 'description of contract' segment of Q.133 is that at least 1 character is input into the text box as the field itself is mandatory.