Official UK procurement notice
Website Host & Maintenance Provider
Authority: WEST MIDLANDS GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED (Public body)
The services required for annual website hosting and maintenance can only be fulfilled by a specific agency - Simpleview - who have sole access to Visit Birmingham's back end infrastructure and CMS/DMS. Each year we pay Simpleview, our website provider, hosting and maintenance costs for the running of our core leisure tourism channels visitbirmingham.com/meetbirmingham.com and makeitwm.com - this is a service that can solely be done by them, as they alone have access to the IT systems and infrastructure that is required to fulfil this service.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe services required for annual website hosting and maintenance can only be fulfilled by a specific agency - Simpleview - who have sole access to Visit Birmingham's back end infrastructure and CMS/DMS. Each year we pay Simpleview, our website provider, hosting and maintenance costs for the running of our core leisure tourism channels visitbirmingham.com/meetbirmingham.com and makeitwm.com - this is a service that can solely be done by them, as they alone have access to the IT systems and infrastructure that is required to fulfil this service. This could not be outsourced to a 3rd party provider. Hosting and maintenance of visitbimmingham.com/meetbirmingham.com and makeitwm.com.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The below is the detailed breakdown of the annual hosting agreementAwarded
The below is the detailed breakdown of the annual hosting agreement.
Destination Management System Core Components
- Visitor Information Module (Product Management System)
- Visitor CRM Module
- Customer Support
- DMS Hosting
- Address Lookup Software
Enterprise Content Management System
- Main Tourism Website
- Additional or Tourism Essentials
- Customer Support for CMS Editors
Web Hosting
HTTPS
- SSL certificate
Web Modules
- Survey Builder
- Banner Ad Management System
- Blog
DMS Modules
- Event submission and approval module- enhanced
Widgets
- Trip Advisor Widgets- Accommodation
- Trip Advisor Widgets- each additional product type
Booking Options
- Live availability from online travel agencies (polling)
- Guestlink + Live availability from property management systems incl. styling of availability grid
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Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mind Internet Consultancy Limited Limited (T/A Simpleview Europe)SME | £47,454 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Website Host & Maintenance Provider · New Mind Internet Consultancy Limited Limited (T/A Simpleview Europe)SME
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2021
- Value
- £47,454
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
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
- 15 Feb 2022, 16:39 GMT
- Last source update
- 15 Feb 2022, 16:39 GMT
- Authority reference
2021-WMGC-0109- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-004320- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03177cFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
West Midlands Growth Company Ltd have directly award the contract to Simpleview due to the nature of the service required and inline with principles set in PPN01/20 where direct award is permissible due absence of competition and protection of exclusive rights under Regulation 32 (2) of the PCR which allows for sole supplier sourcing through use of a negotiated procedure without prior publication to be used and this request also falls within Regulation 32 (5) delivery of services by an existing supplier to where competition is absent due
to technical reasons. In the case of this procurement competition is absent and only one supplier can provide the expertise required to produce the product or has capacity to complete on the scale required. The protection of exclusive, including the intellectual property rights, the current supplier owns those rights and has the exclusive right to exploit the intellectual property to the rights and WMGC is seeking to directly award for the services with the nominated contractor.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Commercial Working GroupReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the noticeOfficial documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.