Notice Information
Notice Title
R5963 Corporate Finance System
Notice Description
The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets intend to enter into a contract with Unit4 in respect of the services described below. The proposed contract is term 3 years. The Agresso (Business World Enterprise Resource Planning) application is the system used by the entire council for the management of its finances. The application is essential IT infrastructure as it provides accounting functionality which enables budget allocation and management across the whole council.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Agresso (Business World Enterprise Resource Planning) application is the system used by the entire council for the management of its finances. The application is essential IT infrastructure as it provides accounting functionality which enables budget allocation and management across the whole council. The firm also provides support and maintenance under this contract. In addition Agresso will also be hosted by Unit 4.
Procurement Information
This award is lawful in accordance with the regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) because the competition is absent for technical reasons. The council has used the Agresso application for a number of years, and the system is an essential part of the council's IT infrastructure such that any down time or system failure would have a detrimental affect on the running of the council's services. At the present time it would be impossible for the council to procure an alternative economic operator to provide this service. This is because, the council has embarked on a wider assessment of its infrastructural IT provision - with respect to Finance, HR and Procurement. Therefore it is key that stability of provision is ensured over the next few years to allow proper consideration of the above mentioned aspects. No other economic provider would be able to provide this service at this time. The application is currently hosted by an external third party; this arrangement is drawing to a conclusion. It will not be possible for the application and the data to be hosted by a third party in the future due to the availability of support for third party hosting
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-042c79
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001003-2024
- 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
72210000 - Programming services of packaged software products
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £797,139 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 11 Jan 20242 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 28 Dec 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
- TOWER HAMLETS
- Contact Name
- Mr Neil Ward
- Contact Email
- neil.ward@towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2073645000
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- E14 2BG
- Post Town
- East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI42 Tower Hamlets
- Delivery Location
- TLI4 Inner London - East
-
- Local Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Electoral Ward
- Poplar
- Westminster Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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