Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-10
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DE&S Mat Strat, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000
Estimated value: 1 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-07
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.
A number of years ago DE&S procured a Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (P3M) system based on the Oracle product suite and consists of Primavera P6 pro and EPPM, Team Member (time recording), OBIEE, Unifier and Project Risk Analyser. The P3M system is deployed across DE&S enabling it to manage the range of projects. Within the system resource loaded schedules are maintained and monthly Earned Value Management (EVM) cost performance reports are generated along with other reports in OBIEE.
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
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The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 7.5.2019 12:00. Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
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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-GJ6B29Q6.
Payment will be via CP&F system. Potential provider should confirm they will accept payment in this way.
If a group[of economic operators submit a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority. The Authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
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 a security aspects letter, the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the security aspects letter to reflect any changes in national law or government policy whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given or otherwise.
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.


Award value: 1