Notice Information
Notice Title
Licence Subscription Ingres/OpenRoads
Notice Description
Licence Subscription for data base application and website hosting
Lot Information
Lot 1
Licence Subscription for data base application and website hosting
Procurement Information
Regulation 32 exempt: 32(2)(b)(ii) whereby competition is absent for technical reasons. HSE asserts its belief that Actian UK Ltd. is the only economic operator in the EU that is capable of supporting HSE in respect of delivering the services required. The contract is for licence subscriptions and database hosting. The licences permit the continued use and support of the products on application servers, (hosted) database servers and user licences for use of the products. Actian UK Ltd. owns the intellectual property and copyright; it sells licences and services direct to its customers and the licences and services are not available through resellers or any other third party. Licences are enabled by a unique key, provided by Actian UK Ltd. without which all products cease to work, functionality ceases and data becomes unavailable. All of Chemical Regulation Division's (a Division of the Health and Safety Executive) current business systems (circa 90) have been built using Actian's OpenRoad Applications and Ingres Databases. These systems were first built in 1995, transferred to HSE ownership from DEFRA in 2008 and have been in constant use since then, iterated upon and improved. Some of these systems are public facing and all 90 systems have to be replaced or decommissioned to allow this product suite to be removed from the HSE IT estate. As such, they are embedded inextricably in CRD's business operations. The CRD Biocides and Pesticides Transformation Programme (BPT) is targeting the removal of most of these services. HSE has procured the replacement Case Management and Database System in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the BPT Programme has procured the Systems Integrator to design and build new services which will replace the existing services that are on Actian, ultimately conducting a data migration of data out of Actian and into Dynamics 365. Consequently, Actian will not be replaced with a "like for like" contract or solution, and will be decommissioned once new services are ready. It was fully anticipated that replacement would be a multi-year activity due to the scale of business process reengineering, design and service development. The BPT programme is behind schedule due to technical complications and, whilst delivering some replacement services in March 2024, it will not deliver all of its objectives for at least 24 months. HSE asserts its belief that it is not reasonable technically to expect that alternative services, to those either built on Actian's existing solutions or being developed by the BPT programme, could be procured to design and develop systems before the current replacement programme is expected to deliver its outcomes. Continued use of Actian is therefore considered the only reasonable technical mechanism to maintain the services supporting HSE regulatory duties alongside delivering its replacement programme.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-042906
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037612-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- 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
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72222300 - Information technology services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 21 Dec 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 21 Dec 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- HEALTH & SAFETY EXECUTIVE
- Contact Name
- Lisa Porter
- Contact Email
- tenders@hse.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BOOTLE
- Postcode
- L20 7HS
- Post Town
- Liverpool
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD7 Merseyside
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD73 Sefton
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Sefton
- Electoral Ward
- Linacre
- Westminster Constituency
- Bootle
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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