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Published 25 Nov 2022, 16:17 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Unidata Support · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Business Services Organisation I T S

ServicesOpen procedure

Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Northern Ireland (UKN)

Awarded value£140,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 3 Jan 2023

Awarded to Rocket Software2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Unidata Software is used by the SOSCARE community system. The SOSCARE system provides the ability to record clients and related referrals and assessments, and deploy and manage Social Work resources to provide appropriate services to clients. These clients come from areas including Childrens Services, Vulnerable Adults, Residential Care, Home Care, and Meals on Wheels, and the services provided include Fostering/Home Care (including payments), and Occupational Therapy (OT) and Hospital Social Work (SW) Referrals. The Childrens Services include areas such as Child Protection, Looked After Children [LAC], Childminders/Playgroups, Adoption and Foster Carers. Departmental Statutory Reporting for key areas is also provided. Business critical areas include Child Protection, Fostering Finance payments and Domiciliary Care (Home Care) Payments

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: Northern Ireland

72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

What it takes to win
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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 more

How bids were scored

Price

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Procedure method: Open procedure
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: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 25 Nov 2022, 16:17 GMT
Last source update: 3 Jan 2023, 10:20 GMT
FTS notice number: 2023/S 000-000027
Classification (CPV): IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area: Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03888c Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
Published justification: Unidata Software is used by the SOSCARE community system. The SOSCARE system provides the ability to record clients and related referrals and assessments, and deploy and manage Social Work resources to provide appropriate services to clients. These clients come from areas including Childrens Services, Vulnerable Adults, Residential Care, Home Care, and Meals on Wheels, and the services provided include Fostering/Home Care (including payments), and Occupational Therapy (OT) and Hospital Social Work (SW) Referrals. The Childrens Services include areas such as Child Protection, Looked After Children [LAC], Childminders/Playgroups, Adoption and Foster Carers. Departmental Statutory Reporting for key areas is also provided. Business critical areas include Child Protection, Fostering Finance payments and Domiciliary Care (Home Care) Payments
The system has been extended recently using web-enabled functionality, to allow the capture of UNOCINI (Understanding the Needs of Children in Northern Ireland) information. This mirrors the manual forms, and also provides for entering family-related data once, where it can be copied forward from one sibling to another, saving time in the process.
The system is used by 13,000 users with average concurrency of 250. The database is stored on the Consolidated Server, based on twin data centres at BSO Regional Datacentres. The database is UNIDATA, and software used to access it is a combination of green screen application (SOSCARE) and web enabled application (UNOCINI).
Each Trust has its own database, but there is functionality to allow a) cross - Trust searching for Clients and their associated referrals and services and b) cross-Trust searching of a de facto Regional Child Protection Register.
Rocket Software own this software and have sole technical rights to Unidata software.

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender

Procurement method changed
3 Jan 2023, 10:20 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 2

Awarded value £140,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 2latest 3 Jan 2023

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Rocket Software	£140,000 †same award published again · counted once	—	Awarded
Rocket Software	£140,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Unidata Support · Rocket Software
Signed
3 Jan 2023
Value
£140,000
Status
active
Unidata Support · Rocket Software
Signed
25 Nov 2022
Value
£140,000
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Business Services Organisation I T S

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth 12-14 Great Victoria Street, BELFAST, Northern Ireland, BT2 7BAContact name, email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Business Services OrganisationReview body Belfast

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Rocket SoftwareAwarded supplier PO BOX 828 3300AV Dordrecht, NL

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.