Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-05-11
Buyer: Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Northern Ireland
Country: UK
Region: NORTHERN IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 72212211 | 72212220 | 72212610 | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72232000: Development of transaction-processing software
Estimated value: 10690390 GBP
Award criteria: Business/technical solution, Implementation and transition, Support, Financial, Legal

Technical requirements: Business/technical solution
Implementation and transition
Support
Financial
Legal
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), a department of the Northern Ireland Executive, has a requirement for a new animal health, public health and animal welfare management system which will also be the primary repository in Northern Ireland for information on food animals and their keepers (the ‘New System’ to be known as the Northern Ireland Food Animal Information System (NIFAIS)), and for associated services, including but not limited to software development, support and maintenance. In NIFAIS, DARD requires a comprehensive and flexible IT system that will hold details of all food and farm animal identifications, registrations and movements plus their locations, test histories and animal welfare statuses. It will hold registration numbers of a wide range of other businesses involved in handling and processing the products of livestock farming. It will provide secure, controlled access through a range of interfaces to a diverse set of internal and external users to control animal diseases, validate subsidy and other scheme information and to generate management reports. It is envisaged that the system will be used by DARD personnel, farmers, markets, abattoirs, private veterinary practitioners, breed societies, ear tag suppliers, rendering premises and others in the agri-food sector to register births and deaths of animals, record movements, reject/accept animals for sale or slaughter, hold test/inspection reports, and extract information for marketing purposes. The successful supplier will be required to supply a model technical architecture and specifications for all hardware needed to deploy their solution, appropriately sized to perform within the target environment. The solution will be hosted on the Northern Ireland Civil Service infrastructure (IT Assist) and must be compatible with it and the DARD infrastructure.
The contract envisages Implementation Services, Operational Services and Additional Services being provided by the contractor over the Term. The Additional Services may include certain additional functionality for the system. At this point in time it is not clear to DARD what Additional Services will be required. In addition due to the nature of the industry there may also be changes required to the Services during the Term (e.g. to reflect changes introduced by EU Directives). As such the total final value of the contract, as included in this notice at section II.2.1) and V.4), refers to the price for the Implementation Services and Operational Services for the Term as envisaged at the date of this notice, but should Additional Services and other changes be required, in accordance with the terms of the contract, then this figure will increase over the Term.
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Winner: Amt-Sybex Limited a company registered in England under company number 03036807
Number of bids: 3