Notice Information
Notice Title
UKRI-3081 Software Subscription and Support Renewal
Notice Description
The Hartree Centre is to purchase a software system which is to maintain installed instances of software to current release levels and retain access to patches including security patches, thereby helping to guard against service degradation and interruption.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Hartree Centre operates a number of production compute systems providing customer-facing services that run a particular software. In order to maintain installed instances of software to current release levels and retain access to patches including security patches, thereby helping to guard against service degradation and interruption, it is imperative that this software is subject to unbroken coverage by an appropriate level of vendor support and this is required for a period of 12 months from 1st June 2023. Additional information: The term and conditions relating to this purchase are provided in the Contract, which matches the Contract number cited in the narrative to this Purchase Order and are specific to this Contract. Where the Contract number is not so cited, then our standard terms and conditions will apply which are available at :- https://www.uksbs.co.uk/services/procure/Documents/UKRIPOTCs.pdf
Procurement Information
In order to maintain installed instances of software to current release levels and retain access to patches including security patches, thereby helping to guard against service degradation and interruption, it is imperative that this software is subject to unbroken coverage by an appropriate level of vendor support. This can only be achieved by one supplier in the market for compatibility and for software related issues. This is compliant to regulation 32 B, ii competition is absent for technical reasons,
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03c631
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012747-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
-
- CPV Codes
48000000 - Software package and information systems
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £137,987 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 4 May 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 2 May 20232 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
- UK RESEARCH & INNOVATION
- Contact Name
- Elizabeth Gage
- Contact Email
- elizabeth.gage@ukri.org
- Contact Phone
- +44 7563420665
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SWINDON
- Postcode
- SN2 1FL
- Post Town
- Swindon
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK7 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK71 Swindon
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Swindon
- Electoral Ward
- Rodbourne Cheney
- Westminster Constituency
- Swindon North
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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