Official UK procurement notice
Software as a Service (SaaS) Management Platform - Request for Information (RFI)
Authority: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe BBC would welcome responses to this RFI in order to inform our thinking prior to any potential procurement exercise.
The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to provide the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with information from the market to identify potential providers that have the capability to support the BBC’s growing SaaS provision.
The BBC is seeking to understand the availability of SaaS management tools that can provide capabilities in the following areas, but not limited to:
- SaaS Discovery and Usage Analytics
- Manage Common SaaS App Config and Policy
- Compliance Entitlement & Cost Optimization
- Security and Protection of Data and Identity
- Automation and Orchestration of common tasks, for example on/off Boarding Workflow triggered tasks, pre-set Templates
- Dashboards, Insights, Reports, Alerts etc
- Integrate via APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and future SaaS products
- After sales service & support
With a large estate of products and services, the BBC would like to be able to have a clear view on where best to focus efforts, supporting and building on our current levels of maturity within the organisation; helping to focus the organisation on optimisation and control of product usage and associated operating costs.
CPV: Industry specific software package · Software package and information systems · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 2 May 2023, 15:27 BST
- Last source update
- 2 May 2023, 15:27 BST
- Authority reference
PROC 2023 33- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-012541- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c5b1Find a Tender
Publisher note: In the case of technology requirements, the BBC may involve its technology partner (Atos IT Solutions and Services Limited) to assist in the scoping and drafting of invitations to tender and/or the evaluation of tenders. However, the final decision as to which is the most economically advantageous (by reference to the award criteria) will be made by the BBC. The awarding authority reserves the right not to award a contract and to annul the procurement process at any stage. Tenders and all supporting documents must be priced in sterling and all payments will be made in sterling. The contract shall be subject to English law. The awarding authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender and reserves the right to accept part of a tender unless the tenderer expressly stipulates otherwise in the tender document.
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 May 2023 → 2 May 2023 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected2 May 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published2 May 2023, 15:27 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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