Notice Information
Notice Title
ID 3923282 Department of Finance General Register Office Support and Maintenance of GeNI and NIROS
Notice Description
DOF - General Register Office (GRO) is placing this voluntary transparency notice to alert economic operators of its intention to modify the Support and Maintenance of GeNI and NIROS system used to facilitate the registration of key life events such as Births, Deaths and Marriages in the 25 district registration offices in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This transparency notice does not place any obligation on the Authority to enter into this modification.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The contract has been modified to allow the Department of Finance meet additional GRO functionality requirements that must integrate with the current business processes.
Options: The initial contract period is 3 years, with the option to extend for 2 further periods of 1 year each.
Procurement Information
In order to maintain critical business function, GRO require an increase to contract value to ensure continuity of service through to expiry of contract term. The Authority will be relying on Regulation 72(1)(b) Additional works, services or supplies "have become necessary" and were not included in the initial procurement and a change of supplier would not be practicable (for economic, technical or interoperability reasons) and would involve substantial inconvenience/duplication of costs. This modification is to increase the contract value by an additional PS401,413.34, and to extend the Contract period for a further 3 years. The revised total contract value following this modification is PS2,345,378.80.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-030179
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/061505-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72240000 - Systems analysis and programming services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £4,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £10,572,439 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 Oct 20254 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 20 Jan 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 28 Mar 20223 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- 5 years
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
- Additional Buyers
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE - GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BELFAST
- Postcode
- BT9 5RR
- Post Town
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
-
- 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
-
- Local Authority
- Belfast
- Electoral Ward
- Sydenham
- Westminster Constituency
- Belfast East
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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