Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-09-07
Buyer: The University of Birmingham
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48430000 | 48440000 | 48450000 | 48490000
Submission deadline: 2018-10-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University of Birmingham is looking for a managed service that provides functional and technical support across a number of environments.
Each environment instance will consist of a full set of Oracle Fusion HCM and Payroll, Fusion ERP, Fusion PBCS (Planning Budgeting Cloud Service), Taleo and Worktribe* cloud pods coupled to the OBIA Data Warehouse and WCC Document Management on-premise environments as well as C2C and SOA integrations.
The final number of BAU environments is still to be decided but there will be a minimum of 5 complete sets; Live, Test, Development, Training and Regression.
There will be a complex set of integrations between Fusion and the remaining university systems, including the Oracle data warehouse and on premise document management system, which will require constant oversight management and configuration.
The University of Birmingham is looking for a managed service that provides functional and technical support across a number of environments.
Each environment instance will consist of a full set of Oracle Fusion HCM and Payroll, Fusion ERP, Fusion PBCS (Planning Budgeting Cloud Service), Taleo and Worktribe* cloud pods coupled to the OBIA Data Warehouse and WCC Document Management on-premise environments as well as C2C and SOA integrations.
The final number of BAU environments is still to be decided but there will be a minimum of 5 complete sets; Live, Test, Development, Training and Regression.
There will be a complex set of integrations between Fusion and the remaining university systems, including the Oracle data warehouse and on premise document management system, which will require constant oversight management and configuration.
The University will have an internal provision of support in place to manage and develop the live solution going forward.
This will be known as the Core Systems Optimisation Team (CSOT) whose role it will be to ensure that the solution remains aligned to the University’s current and future business needs. In doing this it will be responsible for optimising existing tools and functionality, deploying new functionality and overseeing regular updates of the software.
The CSOT team will combine both functional and technical skills and will include a wider distributed team located within the University’s IT Services Department. The CSOT will focus on 5 operational areas:
1) Impact analysis of quarterly releases of functionality including review, process amendment, configuration of the functionality and associated testing and training
2) Service release management activity associated with the quarterly upgrades and monthly maintenance patches including environment maintenance and regression testing
3) Routine system management, such as updating salaries, creating new positions, maintaining work schedules.
The University of Birmingham will seek to build expertise in each of these five areas stated above through collaboration and knowledge transfer with the managed service supplier throughout the duration of the contract.