Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-01-20
Buyer: University College London
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72100000 | 72200000 | 72220000: Systems and technical consultancy services | 72226000: System software acceptance testing services
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Award criteria: As per the ITT document

Technical requirements: As per the ITT document
UCL has purchased IBM Datastage and IBM CDD to act broadly as the technology underpinning applications integration and data warehousing across the IT estate.
It operates a number of applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite for Financials and soon to be HR, SITS for Student Management, Research and Estates applications.
UCL would like to contract an organisation to partner with for the development of the central data-warehouse and potentially the implementation of an Operational Data Store (ODS) for the HR implementation project.
Data for the central data-warehouse will be transferred from and to multiple database types, including other data-warehouses and data-marts. The transfers may require complex data transformations. They will capture data in both real-time and batch modes.
The success of this project will critically depend on a partner with exceptional data modelling skills and experience of developing data-warehouses, especially within the HE sector. Based on their experience and skill, the bidder will be expected to develop data-models for the data-warehouses that meet current needs but also accommodate future needs where these can be reasonably foreseen or expected. Thus the data models developed need to be durable and flexible.
The bidder will be required to develop appropriate documentation and configuration activities and deployment plans to help infrastructure architects and operational teams to understand the deliverable. The documentation should enable those not familiar with the installation to i) reapply the solution in a new clean environment with the same configuration as that provided by the bidder and ii) development staff to understand the configuration and development that has been undertaken.
Under this contract, deliverables will be grouped into work packages. A work package is a self-contained set of deliverables which is priced and contracted as a single unit of work (call off).
A supplier briefing meeting to provide more information to potential bidders will be held at UCL on 14.9.2016. The procurement documentation and further details on registering for the supplier briefing day can be accessed from https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ucl/aspx/Home
The process seeks to select organisations offering the appropriate capability, capacity and competency. UCL reserves the right not to conclude any contracts, to change without notice the procedure for awarding contracts, to reject all or any bids for the contracts, to terminate discussions with all or any interested parties and/or to stop the process without any liability on its part.
All communications shall be in English (or a full translation provided at no cost to UCL). Tenders, when invited, and all supporting documentation must be priced in Sterling and all payments under the Contract will be in Sterling. Any contract or agreement resulting from acceptance of the Invitation To Tender (ITT) will be considered as a Contract made in England according to English Law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
UCL does not bind itself to accept any tender and reserves the right to accept any part of the tender. No contract capable of acceptance will be created between UCL and any party until a contract is executed between UCL and the selected providers.
All tender responses and any supporting documentation must be submitted through this system. There must be no postal correspondence from bidders unless agreed by UCL. Tenders shall not be sent and will not be accepted by fax or e-mail. It is bidder's responsibility to ensure that their documents are uploaded on time and to check on the document size capability. Bidders should be aware that typically there is a high demand on the system close to return deadline times.
Suppliers are required to register on this website: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ucl in order to receive documentation. After registering, you should express an interest in the relevant tender and the tender documentation can then be downloaded.
In accordance with Regulation 86 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, UCL will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period starting from the day when contract award was notified to the bidders. Unsuccessful bidders will be provided with an Award Decision Notice. Tenderers have a right to appeal provided for within the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Any such proceedings must be brought in the High Court of England and Wales.


Number of bids: 5