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Published 9 Jul 2025, 13:59 BST

This notice announces an administrative change to an existing contract or market (a contract change notice). No new tender or admission is opened here; see the linked notices below for the original opportunity.

Official UK procurement notice

UKRI-5058 Software Migration and Decommissioning

Official notice

Authority: UK Research and Innovation (Central government)

Direct award
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: South West (UKK14)
Awarded value£402,340published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 7 Jul 2025no call for competition
Awarded to cloudThing Limited2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) contract for the technical and professional expertise in the migration and decommissioning of the live funding operational system.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: South West
72200000 Software programming and consultancy services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Administrative change
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
9 Jul 2025, 13:59 BST
Last source update
27 Jul 2026, 17:27 BST
Authority reference
UKRI-5058
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070958
Latest notice
Contract change notice (UK10)
Delivery area
South West (UKK14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055c09 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Technical Reasons; Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
Published justification

The contract is being awarded without prior publication of a call for competition due to; technical reasons: The supplier has the technical capability and knowledge to decommission the current funding service and manage the data migration process in a live operational environment. The supplier has delivered 70% of the project and a change of supplier would result in disproportionate technical difficulties and duplication of cost.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Jul 2025 → 27 Jul 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Standstill ends
    24 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
  2. Notice published91 days ago
    27 Jul 2026, 17:27 BST

Notice history

7 events · 6 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Jul 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    9 Jul 2025, 13:59 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    15 Jul 2025, 13:48 BST
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    25 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    2 Oct 2025, 11:39 BST
    UK7
  5. Contract change notice published
    23 Feb 2026, 16:43 GMT
    UK10
  6. Contract change notice published
    30 Jun 2026, 08:53 BST
    UK10
  7. Contract change notice published
    27 Jul 2026, 17:27 BST
    UK10
Routine re-releases (6)
  • 2025-10: 1 release · 2 Oct 2025
  • 2025-07: 2 releases · 9 Jul 2025, 15 Jul 2025

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £402,3401 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 1 Oct 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
cloudThing Limited28 Jul 2025 – 27 Jul 2026£402,3407 Jul 2025standstill to 24 Jul 2025Standstill
cloudThing Limited£587,005 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • UKRI-5058 Software Migration and Decommissioning · cloudThing Limited

    Signed
    1 Oct 2025
    Value
    £587,005
    Period
    21 Jul 2026 – 31 Aug 2026
    Status
    active
    • Change 20 Jul 2026 Additional resource required to support the deliverables on the project
    • Change 16 Jun 2026 Additional resource required to support the deliverables of the project.
    • Change 18 Feb 2026 Delays in the delivery of the Optimisation phase have created a continued requirement for Support Services beyond the originally anticipated timeframe.

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDQJ-7126-JDHG Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire, South West, SN2 1FLContact name, email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Kerv Digital LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 07510381 1 Finsbury Avenue, London, London, EC2M 2PFContact email

Official documents & specifications (6)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract change notice contractContract change noticeUK10Contract change notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract change notice contractContract change noticeUK10Contract change notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract change notice contractContract change noticeUK10Contract change notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender