Official UK procurement notice
Flood Modeller licenses renewal
Authority: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Incident Management Forecasting System (IMFS) is the Environment Agency’s primary flood forecasting system and uses Jacobs owned Flood Modeller (FM) software as a platform to run its flood forecasting models.<br/><br/>The purpose of this VEAT notice is to announce the Environment Agency's intention to enter into a 5 year contract, starting 1st January 2025, with Jacobs for supply of Flood Modeller software licenses. <br/><br/>The Environment Agency will now enter a standstill period, starting on Monday 18th November 2024 for a period of 10 days, ending Thursday 28th November 2024 at midnight.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Please refer to II.1.4.1
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How this buyer will score bids.
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The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Price
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Nov 2024, 11:58 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Nov 2024, 11:58 GMT
- Authority reference
C26745- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-037161- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
Jacobs are the sole owners and licensor of FM and there are no alternatives available to us without rewriting all forecasting models. It is the view of the Environment Agency that this contract is justifiable under Regulations 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 to award the contract for the supply and support of the FM software because, as Jacobs own the intellectual property for the software, and develop and support the specialist FM software, therefore no reasonable alternative exists, nor can another organisation supply and support the product. At this time, no alternative solution is available because any decision to deviate from FM would require a redevelopment of all Environment Agency models, which would take many years to develop and at great cost, therefore competition is absent for technical reasons.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobs UK Ltd | £2,275,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 037161-2024-1 · Jacobs UK Ltd
- Signed
- 14 Oct 2024
- Value
- £2,275,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Defra Network eTendering PortalMediation bodyReview bodyReview contact point
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Jacobs UK LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.