SAFETY TECH CHALLENGE FUND

1. Title: SAFETY TECH CHALLENGE FUND2. Awarding Authority: Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, 100 Parliament Street, London, GB, SW1A 2BQ. Tel: 0 2072116000. Email: commercial@dcms.gov.uk. Web: www.dcms.gov.uk (DCMS Commercial)3. Contract type: ServicesOpen4. Description: Managed Service requirement for design and administration of the Safety Tech Challenge Fund. A competition challenging UK Safety Tech firms to develop innovative technological solutions addressing the challenges faced by the move by online platforms to end-to-end encrypted environments. The service required will fall into 3 distinct phases: 1) Design and Preparation of the competition; 2) Launch and Application and 3) Development and Assessment.5. CPV Code(s): 75100000, 750000006. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI3, UKI32, UK7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Place of performance :UK – United Kingdom8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Publication reference: 2021/S 000-012004GO Reference: GO-2021528-PRO-18316197Reference Number: 1024519. Estimated value of requirement: Value excluding VAT: £650,00010. Time limit for receipt of projects or requests to participate 28.6.2021 (12:00:00).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit: 12. Other information: CommunicationThe procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, atAdditional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned addressTenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically viaTenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address Type of the contracting authorityMinistry or any other national or federal authorityMain activityRecreation, culture and religionThis contract is divided into lots: NoAward criteriaPrice is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documentsDuration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing systemStart19 July 2021End31 March 2022This contract is subject to renewalNo Information about variantsVariants will be accepted: NoInformation about optionsOptions: No Information about European Union FundsThe procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: NoAdditional informationReceipt of tenders MUST be no later than 12:00 noon (GMT) on 28 June 2021The Department may extend the contract for a further one year in tree month incrementsThe estimated budget value of £650,000 is split into (1) Fund Administration of £225,000 maximum and (2) Prize fund pool of £425,000 minimum.Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: YesInformation about recurrenceThis is a recurrent procurement: NoAdditional informationThe contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.Receipt of tenders MUST be no later than 12:00 noon (GMT) on 28th June 2021.The Department reserves the right to extend the contract for a further 3 months and the estimated value of the contract value provided within the contract notice includes any possible contract extension.The estimated budget value for these requirements is £650,000. This budget covers:the administrative cost of running, promoting and evaluating the fund, and supporting the fund participants (this must be no more than £225,000);the pool of prize funding, to be divided between five recipient companies (the prize fund pool must be no less than £425,000, which would provide £85,000 funding to each company).For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:To respond to this opportunity, please click here:TKR-2021528-EX-1622326# funding opportunity