Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-02
Buyer: Defra Network eTendering Portal
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 32410000 | 48600000 | 48820000: Servers | 50312000 | 51612000
Estimated value: 325000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-03-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Authority is procuring a contract for the delivery of Hosting and Application Support (‘H&AS’) Services (‘the Contract’) to Defra, the Environment Agency (EA), Natural England (NE ), Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and Rural Payments Agency (RPA) (‘the Core Defra Group’). The remaining organisations within the wider Defra group (‘Defra Group’) will be potential service recipients and may be added to the contract at a later date via change control.
The Contract is one of a suite of contracts collectively referred to as the ‘Unity’ programme that will replace existing ICT Services which are currently delivered under separate contracts by two separate service suppliers to the Environment Agency and Defra.
The Authority wishes to purchase the whole range of Hosting and Application Support Services. These include implementation, provision, management and operation of:
— an appropriate service management layer to support the new Defra Group ICT Service Management Operating Model.
The Supplier will provide continued access for approximately 21 000 end users to approximately 355 unique applications. These Services are hosted from 5 data centres and the DSRs. The applications support a diverse range of existing business services and are of varying age and complexity.
The Supplier will be required to interface and collaborate with other Unity suppliers to ensure delivery of an integrated ICT Service to end users.
— project work associated with other Defra Group Programmes where there is a dependency on the H&AS Services;
— H&AS Services for any new or additional applications required to support business services across the Defra Group.
Applications Maintenance and Applications Development as defined in the Descriptive Document will be out of scope for this procurement.
The estimated contract value stated in section II.2.6 is the maximum estimated value. This assumes a 6-year contract term (i.e. it assumes that Defra invokes the one-year extension option) and includes the one-off costs associated with implementation. The estimate also includes provision for optional services, contingency and for growth to allow for any additional Service Recipients who may join the Contract during its term. The maximum value is not guaranteed expenditure and Defra considers that the actual costs of the Contract will be considerably less than the maximum value set out here.
Please refer to the Descriptive Document for further details of the Hosting and Application Support Services procurement and the scope of the Contract.
OJEU procedures include a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to bidders. This period allows unsuccessful bidders to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly.


Award value: 325000000