Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Electronic Supply Area (ESA) and Asset-Tracking Cloud Based Software
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description- Implementation of a cloud-hosted platform for
asset and item tracking.
- Production of a report to support critical work to
the development of robust, informed User
Requirements to support Army requirements
CPV: Programming services of packaged software products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Apr 2024, 14:35 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Apr 2024, 14:35 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-013905- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-045622Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
It is considered that this contract can be placed
with Smarter Technologies Trading Limited pursuant
to Regulation 7(1)(l) of the Defence and Security
Public Contract Regulations, justified by the
following:
i. This is a contract for services which fall within the
DSPCR Regulation 3 definition of Research and
Development: ‘all activities comprising fundamental
research, applied research and experimental
development’. Specifically, it constitutes
experimental development, defined by DSPCR
Regulation 3 as ‘work based on existing knowledge
obtained from research or practical experience with
a view to initiating the manufacture of new
materials, products or devices, establishing new
processes, systems and services or considerably
improving those that already exist and includes the
realisation of technological demonstrators’.
ii. The MOD will fully fund this Research and
Development activity. The ownership of the
Intellectual Property Rights in the results will remain
with the contractor, and under DEFCON 705, the
MOD will acquire user rights of the Research and
Development activity.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smarter Technologies Trading LimitedSME | £151,340 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 013905-2024-1 · Smarter Technologies Trading LimitedSME
- Signed
- 29 Apr 2024
- Value
- £151,340
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Army CommercialReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Smarter Technologies Trading LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.