Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-09-13
Buyer: Wrexham County Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: Flintshire and Wrexham
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72222000: Information systems strategic planning services | 72222100: Information systems strategic review services
Submission deadline: 2016-10-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Servicios de planificación y revisión estratégica de sistemas de información o de tecnología de la información
Információs rendszer és technológia stratégiai felülvizsgálatával és tervezésével kapcsolatos szolgáltatások
Usługi w zakresie systemów informacji lub strategicznej analizy technologicznej oraz usługi w zakresie planowania
Serviços de planeamento e de análise estratégica em matéria de sistemas ou de tecnologias da informação
Wrexham County Borough Council currently maintains around 160 software applications which are used by the Council's business units to support both front and back office services. Applications are mainly supplied by commercial vendors (103) with in-house development accounting for the remaining systems. These are largely hosted in-house, across an estate of 200+ virtual and physical servers.
As part of our ongoing Re-Shaping agenda and ICT Strategy, we are undertaking a programme to rationalise our business applications portfolio to meet future business requirements and deliver budgetary savings. We are now seeking bids from a suitable partner to assist us in the development and implementation of an Application Rationalisation Strategy.
Wrexham County Borough Council currently maintains around 160 software applications which are used by the Council's business units to support both front and back office services. Applications are mainly supplied by commercial vendors (103) with in-house development accounting for the remaining systems. These are largely hosted in-house, across an estate of 200+ virtual and physical servers.
As part of our ongoing Re-Shaping agenda and ICT Strategy, we are undertaking a programme to rationalise our business applications portfolio to meet future business requirements and deliver budgetary savings. We are now seeking bids from a suitable partner to assist us in the development and implementation of an Application Rationalisation Strategy.
Phase 1 will produce a high level overview assessing the application portfolio, outcomes from this work will include (but are not limited to):
— Identifying applications which duplicate core business functions and can be replaced or consolidated to free up budget and resources.
Phase 2 will produce detailed plans for migrating applications, outcomes from this work will include (but are not limited to):
— Producing a detailed migration plan for each application which will take on any opportunities to move to an off-site/cloud hosted infrastructure;
Note, to inform bidders as to the nature of the application estate, schedule A of the tender pack provides details of the commercial application contracts in use by the Council and gives an internally assessed grading of each Application's potential for rationalisation.
Wrexham County Borough Council currently maintains around 160 software applications which are used by the Council's business units to support both front and back office services. Applications are mainly supplied by commercial vendors (103) with in-house development accounting for the remaining systems. These are largely hosted in-house, across an estate of 200+ virtual and physical servers.
As part of our ongoing Re-Shaping agenda and ICT Strategy, we are undertaking a programme to rationalise our business applications portfolio to meet future business requirements and deliver budgetary savings. We are now seeking bids from a suitable partner to assist us in the development and implementation of an Application Rationalisation Strategy.