1993 |
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| The Agency undertook to consider market testing their in-house IT services. |
1995 |
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April | CCTA commenced a definition study of the project. |
September | The Agency’s management board accepted, with some reservations, CCTA’s report defining the partnership. |
1996 |
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February | The Agency's advert appeared in the Official Journal of the European Communities. The Agency received 56 expressions of interest. To each interested party the Agency sent a questionnaire. 22 parties responded. From these the Agency prepared a long list of 12 potential bidders. |
May | The Agency postponed the issue of the Outline Specification. |
June/July | The Agency reorganised their procurement team. |
August | The Agency appointed ASE to provide advice on IT matters. The Agency issued their Outline Specification to the long list of potential bidders and hosted an open suppliers meeting. |
October | The Agency appointed Berwin Leighton as legal advisors. The Agency decided to structure the partnership through a joint venture company. |
December | The Agency appointed KPMG as temporary financial advisors. |
1997 |
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January | The Agency postponed the issue of the Full Specification while their IT staff were given an opportunity to review the document. |
April | The Agency appointed Capita as financial advisers. The Agency issued their Full Specification to the six remaining potential bidders. |
June | The Agency received two responses to their Full Specification. |
July | The Agency completed their review of the two responses and rejected one of these. |
July/August | The Agency decided not to hold effective control over the joint venture company, a material change to the procurement. |
September | The Agency re-invited the six potential bidders to respond to the Agency's decision to pass control of the joint venture company to their partner. This did not engender further interest in the project. |
October | The Agency commenced their negotiations with CMG. |
1998 |
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8 June | The Contract was signed. |