Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-02-10
Buyer: Notting Hill Housing Trust
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72223000: Information technology requirements review services
Estimated value: 900000 GBP

Technical requirements: A Contract for the provision of IT consultancy and system integration services. Under the Contract the service provider will work with Notting Hill Housing Trust's (NNHT's) internal project management team to deliver an organisation-wide programme of process and systems re-engineering within NHHT.
Under the Contract the service provider will advise NHHT on how it can implement process and system changes more quickly and effectively to improve a number of NHHT's key transaction processes, to boost organisational health and produce sustainable results for NHHT and its customers.
A Contract for the provision of IT consultancy and system integration services. Under the Contract the service provider will work with Notting Hill Housing Trust's (NNHT's) internal project management team to deliver an organisation-wide programme of process and systems re-engineering within NHHT.
Under the Contract the service provider will advise NHHT on how it can implement process and system changes more quickly and effectively to improve a number of NHHT's key transaction processes, to boost organisational health and produce sustainable results for NHHT and its customers.
Notting Hill Housing Trust (NHHT) intends to award the Contract to Ensono Limited (Ensono) pursuant to Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the Regulations). NHHT is of the view that the Contract can only be awarded to Ensono because competition is absent for technical reasons, as outlined further below.
Ensono has presented NHHT with a proposal which gives NHHT's Executive Board and wider Business Leader group a very high degree of confidence that Ensono understand the process and system issues which hamper NHHT's current service delivery capabilities and how these can be re-engineered to improve services and reduce costs (largely through automation and efficiency measures). Ensono's proposal clearly explains how modern technology solutions can be delivered quickly — using Agile Delivery — in environments similar to NHHT's where there is a need to layer new technology on top of legacy systems. Ensono has an extensive understanding of NHHT's business and is able to mobilise within 2 weeks. Ensono is also able to provide NHHT with an extremely competitive price for the provision of the services under the Contract.
NHHT is therefore of the view that if it were to seek to procure the Contract in accordance with the Regulations competition would be absent for technical reasons because no service provider in the market would realistically be able to compete with Ensono's offering for the Contract, due to Ensono's understanding of NHHT's requirements and the competitive price it is prepared to offer NHHT for the services.
The Contracting Authority will enter into this Contract following a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period starting on the day after this notice is published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (as amended) (the Regulations) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or who are at risk of harm by a breach of the Regulations to bring proceedings in the High Court. Any such proceedings must be brought within the limitation period specified by the Regulations according to the remedy sought.


Winner: Ensono Limited
Award value: 900000