Outsourced IT Support Services

Disqualification of Tenderers HCC Group reserves the right to disqualify any tenderer based on the information provided with regards to Company Directors and/or any Conflict of Interest where such information would deem the tenderer non-compliant (such as in the event of a disqualified Director or irreconcilable conflict of interest). HCC Group reserves the right to disqualify a Response to ITT and/or a tenderer from this procurement process at any time if: a Response to ITT does not comply in any respect with the requirements of this ITT; any information provided to HCC Group by the relevant tenderer (or, in the case of a consortium, any of its members), including without limitation in a Response to ITT, is incomplete, inaccurate or misleading in any respect or ceases to be correct; or the tenderer has colluded with any person (excluding, where the tenderer is a consortium, collusion between consortium members in relation to the consortium’s Response to ITT) in relation to or in connection with its or any other tenderer’s Response to ITT. Disqualification of any Response to ITT or tenderer will be without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of HCC Group. Exclusion Grounds Grounds for Mandatory Exclusion You will be excluded from the procurement process if any of the mandatory grounds for exclusion apply, unless adequate explanations and/or mitigating factors have been included in your response to question 2.6.2 or 2.6.4 (as appropriate). You should check the full text of Schedule 6 or 7 of the Procurement Act 2023 and take legal advice where appropriate. If you are bidding as, or on behalf of, a consortium, you should check with all members of the consortium whether or not any of these grounds for exclusion apply and select “Yes” if any of these grounds apply to any consortium member. Note: if any of the mandatory grounds for exclusion become applicable after the date of submission of your Response to ITT, you must inform HCC Group. Failure to do so may result in termination of any contract awarded. Where you have answered “Yes” in respect of any matters in question 2.6.1 or 2.6.3, the details provided by you in the response to question 2.6.2 and 2.6.4 respectively will be used to decide whether the mandatory grounds for exclusion apply. If such grounds apply, you will be automatically excluded unless you can demonstrate evidence of your acceptability despite the existence of these grounds for exclusion. This would include adequate evidence of “self-cleaning” (see Section 58(1) of the Procurement Act 2023). The measures you have taken will also be evaluated taking into account the gravity and particular circumstances of the criminal offence or misconduct. Grounds for Discretionary Exclusion HCC Group may exclude you from the procurement process, if, having investigated the circumstances, any of these grounds for exclusion is found to apply. If you are bidding as, or on behalf of, a consortium, you should check with all members of the consortium whether or not any of these grounds for exclusion apply and select “Yes” if any of these grounds apply to any consortium member.

Confirm that your organisation is currently certified to Cyber Essentials Plus? If you answered ‘Outsourced’ to Serv1, confirm whether your organisation’s outsourced server provider has IASME Cyber Essentials and/or ISO:27001 accreditation? Does your organisation have a current and up to date Incident Recovery Plan / Policy (or similar) to underpin and inform the process related to personal data and/or information security incidents?