Official UK procurement notice
Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council Schools Information Management System (SIMS)
Authority: Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTransition from existing contractual model of perpetual licence of SIMS to local authority with associated support services, to software as a service model contracting directly with individual schools to provide SIMS and associated support services
CPV: Data services · Data-processing services · Database services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software support services · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Prior to the award of these contracts, the current provider -ESS- had a contract with…Awarded
Prior to the award of these contracts, the current provider -ESS- had a contract with the local authority under which it provided a perpetual licence to the local authority for the purpose of providing SIMS to the schools in the local authority's area, with associated support services.
ESS has now served notice to terminate that contract and requires that, in order to continue provision of SIMS, individual schools must enter into direct contracts with ESS to receive SIMS as software as a service.
In order to bring about the transition, the local authority will enter into a Facilitation Agreement "FA" with ESS under which nothing of value is received by ESS and no material services are provided to the local authority; it is purely an administrative arrangement to effect the transition.
Each school in the local authority's area will enter into a School Contract "SC" with ESS for the direct provision of SIMS as software as a service, at substantially the same cost as before.
The highest value SC over the 3 year contract term is 28226GBP and the lowest value SC is 767GBP.
The schools in the local authority's area whose governing bodies will enter into contracts with ESS are as follows:
- Abertillery Learning Community
- All Saints RC Primary School
- Beaufort Hill Primary School
- Blaen-y-Cwm Primary School
- Bryn Bach Primary School
- Brynmawr Foundation School
- Coed-y-Garn Primary School
- Cwm Primary School
- Deighton Primary School
- Ebbw Fawr Learning Community
- Georgetown Primary School
- Glanhowy Primary School
- Glyncoed Primary School
- Pen-y-Cwm Special School
- Rhos-y-Fedwen Primary School
- River Centre 3-16 Learning Community
- Swffryd Primary School
- St Illtyds Primary School
- St Josephs RC Primary School
- St Marys Church Primary School
- St Marys RC Primary School
- Tredegar Comprehensive School
- Willowtown Primary School
- Ysgol Gymraeg Brohelyg
- Ystruth Primary School
The local authority publishes this notice on behalf of itself and the schools listed above but is not acting as a central purchasing body on behalf of the schools. Additional information: Contract duration: 36 months
The FA has no value
Individual School Contracts have a value between 28226GBP and 767GBP
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Mar 2022, 15:45 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Mar 2022, 15:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-008585- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032824Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This contract award notice is published on a wholly voluntary basis and without prejudice to the local authority's and the governing body of each individual school's position that no prior publication of a contract notice, and thus no competitive tender exercise, was required in respect of the Facilitation Agreement (FA) and/or the individual Schools Contracts (SC). Neither the local authority nor the governing body of any of the schools listed above accepts that the FA and/or the individual SCs are within the scope of application of Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended).
Publisher note: (WA Ref:120077)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Software Solutions Ltd | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 008585-2022-1 · Education Software Solutions Ltd
- Signed
- 29 Mar 2022
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prior to the award of these contracts, the current provider -ESS- had a contract with… | 1bids · 0 electronic · 1 from abroad | 0 | — | £767 – £28,226 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £767 – £28,226 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Education Software Solutions LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.