Official UK procurement notice
Managed Service for Ingres and OpenROAD Support
Authority: Office for National Statistics (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionONS requires a contracted-out Service requirement for support of live Ingres, ABF and OpenROAD systems. This includes the technical support and Ingres / OpenROAD admin (DBA) for key ONS systems
CPV: Computer support and consultancy services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Price
- “Managed Service for Ingres and OpenROAD Support” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive dialogue
- 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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 May 2024, 17:44 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Oct 2024, 14:46 BST
- Authority reference
Pu-24-0208- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-031736- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046a23Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
To preserve the continuity of knowledge and expertise built over the preceding four and a half years that will provide resilient and consistent support for the critical outputs produced by the organisation using the OpenROAD and Ingress applications.
OpenROAD is a database-centric, object-oriented, 4GL rapid application development (RAD) tool that lets you develop and deploy business applications on Windows, Linux and Unix. Ingres is an open-source relational database management system (DBMS) designed for large-scale commercial and government applications.
The expertise in the market for the size of managed service support required is very limited. The previous open tender only elicited one suitable response and a market engagement exercise failed to generate any suitable leads. Similarly, a search of purchasing platforms available to the organisation failed to match on the requirements.
A strategic resourcing decision not to train and develop permanent resources on legacy technologies means that there is no internal capability to support these applications.
The support provided for processing of survey data that enables the regular processing of surveys operated by ONS is a fundamental enabler for our core strategic aim of "statistics for the public good" and cannot be compromised.
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Procurement method changed3 Oct 2024, 14:46 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 031736-2024-PU-24-0208-1
- Signed
- 1 Aug 2024
- Value
- £4,000,000
- Status
- active
Contract 016382-2024-1
- Signed
- 14 May 2024
- Value
- £3,696,980
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- Diegesis LimitedFramework contractor
- Diegesis LtdFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.