Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-12-23
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DE&S Mat Strat, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000
Estimated value: 3400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-01-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Software package and information systems. Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is a bespoke trading entity, and arm’s length body of the Ministry of Defence. It manages a vast range of complex projects to buy and support all the equipment and services that the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force need to operate effectively. DE&S works closely with industry, including through partnering agreements and private finance initiatives.
DE&S now has a requirement for a development partner to further develop its P3M system in particular in the areas of EVM, cost management, forecasting, interfaces to other systems and additional Business Intelligence (BI) reports. The development partner will work with DE&S and its platform manager to enhance the system using an agile development approach. There are several capability enhancements planned, the majority of which will involve the configuration of Unifier.
DE&S is looking for a development partner with experience of configuring our P3M Oracle-based product suite, particularly Unifier/P6 following an agile development approach. They must also be familiar with project control techniques such as EVM, forecasting and have a track record of successfully delivering enterprise level solutions in a secure environment. The selected development partner will become the Solution Architect for the tool suite and be invited to provide adoption support and an application help desk service. The supplier will need to work with an existing Platform manager to manage releases of capability onto the production system.
Please note any remote data centre must be UK based. Non-UK based data centres will therefore be non-complaint against the requirement.
This PQQ is subject to a Cyber Risk Assessment via Octavian. In order to remain compliant and be considered further, please complete the suppliers questions which can be found here: https://supplier-cyber-protection.service.gov.uk/. The unique reference to access the supplier questions is: RAR-DE9YFUTX
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.The authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a security aspects letter), the authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.
Advertising Regime OJEU: This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-20191218-DCB-15703147

Eligibility requirements: N/a

Award value: 3400000