Notice Information
Notice Title
Reservoir Act Compliance Enforcement (RACE) Application [RACE2 Re-Procurement]
Notice Description
The Reservoir Act Compliance Enforcement (RACE) application is a business-critical system used by the National Reservoir Safety Team to support the compliance and enforcement activities mandated under the Reservoirs Safety Act (1975) and the Flood and Water Management Act (2010). Currently there are approximately ten users in the National Reservoir Safety Team across England who are responsible for managing the relationship with engineers and reservoir owners, ensuring compliance and where appropriate undertaking enforcement action. The Environment Agency are looking to select a new, single vendor that can offer cloud hosting of the existing, OpenText Documentum-based RACE platform as well as provide support and maintenance services plus additional professional services as and when needed to support future change projects. The current version of Documentum is hosted on-premise and is being upgraded to a cloud ready version. Documentum as a platform will be required for the next few years to allow the project team to focus on design of the new 'front end' Client Services, with re-platforming to be considered as a follow on exercise. The Government commissioned the Balmforth review into the incident at Toddbrook reservoir in 2019. This has made a number of recommendations which will change the way the Reservoir Safety team works. The software the team uses will need to be updated in order to support the potential new ways of working. Data records and documentation stored within the system are marked OFFICIAL and a handling caveat of SENSITIVE for a small subset of information marked OFFICIAL that requires special handling by staff (such as Reservoir Risk Flood Maps). A pre-market engagement presentation will be conducted on Wednesday 24th July at 3-4pm via Teams: Microsoft Teams Need help? Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 372 726 856 676 Passcode: y8Bg5x ________________________________________ Dial in by phone +44 20 3321 5273,,317263059# United Kingdom, London Find a local number Phone conference ID: 317 263 059# Join on a video conferencing device Tenant key: teams@defra.onpexip.com Video ID: 127 119 484 8 More info This session will be recorded. Any questions can be submitted during the recording and directly to DgC, these will then be collated , answered and circulated to all.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0484a6
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023242-2024
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
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
72212311 - Document management software development services
72212517 - IT software development services
72512000 - Document management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £3,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 25 Jul 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 4 Nov 2024 - 4 Nov 2029 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEFRA GROUP COMMERCIAL
- Contact Name
- Leigh Board - DgC
- Contact Email
- leigh.board@defra.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- 03708506506
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRISTOL
- Postcode
- BS1 5AH
- Post Town
- Bristol
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK5 West of England
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK51 Bristol, City of
- Delivery Location
- TLI32 Westminster
-
- Local Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Electoral Ward
- Hotwells and Harbourside
- Westminster Constituency
- Bristol Central
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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