Notice Information
Notice Title
ID 3534429 - DoF - Purchase of patching product for non-Microsoft products on desktop clients
Notice Description
IT Assist has responsibility for the delivery of common IT systems and services to support the business objectives of the 9 Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) Departments and approximately 40 Arms-Length organisations. Services are delivered to approximately 28000 NICS staff and customers located across Northern Ireland. One of the services is the supply, management and security of client desktop/laptops for customers to use for the execution of their business. IT Assist currently use Microsoft SCCM 2019 for the management and security patching of all client desktop and laptops. SCCM is used to scan and apply the required patches for all Microsoft products on the clients and a small number of 3rd party products security patches are applied for example Adobe. For the 3rd party applications a SCCM package has to be developed each time containing the latest patch and pushed out to every desktop. IT Assist has identified a need for a product that will allow them to more efficiently manage the security patching of the large number of 3rd party applications that are in use while maintaining the well embedded SCCM client infrastructure. IT Assist requires a 5 year contract (3 years initial with 2 optional extension years) for the supply and delivery of a patch management system to integrate into the SCCM environment that will allow clients to have 3rd party non Microsoft products security patched. Please see document entitled "ID 3534429- Specification Schedule" for full details of the requirement".
Lot Information
Lot 1
IT Assist has responsibility for the delivery of common IT systems and services to support the business objectives of the 9 Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) Departments and approximately 40 Arms-Length organisations. Services are delivered to approximately 28000 NICS staff and customers located across Northern Ireland. One of the services is the supply, management and security of client desktop/laptops for customers to use for the execution of their business. IT Assist currently use Microsoft SCCM 2019 for the management and security patching of all client desktop and laptops. SCCM is used to scan and apply the required patches for all Microsoft products on the clients and a small number of 3rd party products security patches are applied for example Adobe. For the 3rd party applications a SCCM package has to be developed each time containing the latest patch and pushed out to every desktop. IT Assist has identified a need for a product that will allow them to more efficiently manage the security patching of the large number of 3rd party applications that are in use while maintaining the well embedded SCCM client infrastructure. IT Assist requires a 5 year contract (3 years initial with 2 optional extension years) for the supply and delivery of a patch management system to integrate into the SCCM environment that will allow clients to have 3rd party non Microsoft products security patched. Please see document entitled "ID 3534429- Specification Schedule" for full details of the requirement".
Options: After the initial contract period of 3 years there are two optional extension periods of 1 year each
Renewal: This contract will be potentially be due to be re-procured after 3-5 years
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-02ddae
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001473-2022
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
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- CPV Codes
48700000 - Software package utilities
48800000 - Information systems and servers
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72260000 - Software-related services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £144,008 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 18 Jan 20224 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 8 Oct 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 2 Dec 20214 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- The Department of Finance
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BELFAST
- Postcode
- BT4 3SX
- Postcode Area
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLN Northern Ireland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLN0 Northern Ireland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLN06 Belfast
- Delivery Location
- TLN Northern Ireland
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- Local Authority
- Belfast
- Electoral Ward
- Stormont
- Westminster Constituency
- Belfast East
Further Information
Notice URLs
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