Building Safety Regulator Digital Delivery Partner

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Procedure method

Negotiated without publication of a contract notice

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Competitive procedure

GPA / WTO covered

Unspecified in notice

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

12 Dec 2025, 16:47 GMT

Last source update

12 Dec 2025, 16:55 GMT

Authority reference

HSE/T4192

FTS notice number

2025/S 000-082676

Classification (CPV)

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive

Published justification

HSE has a contract with PA Consulting for the design and build of a BSR Case Management system, to allow them to support and manage the transition of the system they have designed, developed and built on behalf of HSE to the new BSR body. We are seeking to extend this contract by 12 months and rely on the provisions of Reg 72 1 b (i) and (ii) to support this approach.

The original contract started 22nd November 2022 and is due to end 31st March 2026. Following this 12 month extension, the contract will now end on 31st March 2027.

Publisher note: HSE are considering varying the existing contract with PA Consulting for the design and build of a BSR Case Management system, to allow them to support and manage the transition of the system they have designed, developed and built on behalf of HSE to the new BSR body. We are seeking to rely on the provisions of Reg 72 1 b (i) and (ii) to do so. In respect of Reg 72 1 b (i) - the argument supporting economic reasons, is primarily being that the current contract was let using the CCS DOS 5 framework four years ago. That framework has now been replaced by the CCS DOS 6 framework and the new framework rates have increased substantially compared to the old ones. This would create a substantial additional finance burden. More substantively the technical issues that would be experienced if we failed to direct award. The system built by PA Consulting has been substantially configured to HSE's requirements and it is intrinsically linked to a number of critical HSE systems and it is important that HSE appoints a supplier to support the transition work, which was not HSE's decision and needs to be undertaken within an extremely challenging timeframe, who understands the intricacies of the system and its interaction with HSE's other systems to ensure that appropriate security protocols and separation provisions can be maintained given that individual components of the system will need to be retained and used by HSE on its IT estate. The rationale supporting the use of Reg 72 1 b (ii) is that engaging anyone other than PA Consulting to deliver this work is going to require a substantial financial and time commitment from any new supplier to understand the system which would be a substantial duplication of costs given that HSE has already paid PA a substantial amount of money to have that understanding. It would in all likelihood require that HSE also pay PA further sums to engage with any new supplier to support them as they develop their understanding of the system. The final point is that the engagement of anyone else to do this work would also cause HSE significant inconvenience as a substantial amount of staff resource would be required to support any new contractor in delivering this work, which wouldn't be required to the same extent if it is delivered by PA. This resource is scarce, expensive and isn't available because it is already being utilised to support other elements of the transition process. HSE cannot backfill this resource in the timeframe required without incurring significant costs and even if it were able to do so there would be a significant impact on HSE's ability to deliver BAU activity in an environment that is currently subject to a high level of public and political scrutiny. The original contract value was circa £16m, prior to a previous uplift. The proposed uplift in contract value is £5m, which is within the 50% permitted by the Procurement Regulations. The total contract value will now be £24,801,210.00

• PA Consulting Services LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 00414220 10 Bressenden Place, London, UK, SW1E 5DN

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