Official UK procurement notice
Oracle Cloud Licences for West Midlands Fire Service 2025-2030
Authority: West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAward of contract for Oracle Fusion Cloud SaaS Licences for West Midlands Fire Service for a 5 year period (2025 to 2030)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 May 2025, 16:55 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Jun 2025, 17:25 BST
- Authority reference
C5812- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-032753- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050d6bFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Intellectual Property Exclusive Rights; Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Direct award justified as a special case.
This procurement meets schedule 5, paragraph 6 of the Procurement Act.
'The following conditions are met in relation to the public contract-
(a)due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and
(b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.'
Oracle Corporation UK Ltd develops the ERP cloud-based system used to manage business critical functions such as finance, payrolls, HR, procurement and organisational development. Moving away from Oracle would cause technical and migration difficulties and the cost to change to a different system would be prohibitive.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 May 2025 → 16 Jun 2025 · 2 dates- Standstill ends15 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published16 Jun 2025, 17:25 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 May 2025- Transparency notice published6 May 2025, 16:55 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published6 May 2025, 17:29 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected19 May 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published16 Jun 2025, 17:25 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Corporation UK Limited20 May 2025 – 19 May 2030 | £2,259,480 inc. VAT | 6 May 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Oracle Cloud Licences for West Midlands Fire Service 2025-2030 · Oracle Corporation UK Limited
- Signed
- 16 Jun 2025
- Value
- £2,259,480 inc. VAT
- Period
- 20 Jun 2025 – 19 May 2030
- Status
- active
No agreed KPIs: The contract is below the £5m threshold for KPIs
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- ORACLE CORPORATION UK LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender