Notice Information
Notice Title
Flood Modeller licenses renewal
Notice Description
The Incident Management Forecasting System (IMFS) is the Environment Agency's primary flood forecasting system and uses Jacobs owned Flood Modeller (FM) software as a platform to run its flood forecasting models.<br/><br/>The purpose of this VEAT notice is to announce the Environment Agency's intention to enter into a 5 year contract, starting 1st January 2025, with Jacobs for supply of Flood Modeller software licenses. <br/><br/>The Environment Agency will now enter a standstill period, starting on Monday 18th November 2024 for a period of 10 days, ending Thursday 28th November 2024 at midnight.
Procurement Information
Jacobs are the sole owners and licensor of FM and there are no alternatives available to us without rewriting all forecasting models. It is the view of the Environment Agency that this contract is justifiable under Regulations 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 to award the contract for the supply and support of the FM software because, as Jacobs own the intellectual property for the software, and develop and support the specialist FM software, therefore no reasonable alternative exists, nor can another organisation supply and support the product. At this time, no alternative solution is available because any decision to deviate from FM would require a redevelopment of all Environment Agency models, which would take many years to develop and at great cost, therefore competition is absent for technical reasons.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04b73d
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037161-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- 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
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £2,275,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 18 Nov 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 13 Oct 20241 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
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (DEFRA NETWORK ETENDERING PORTAL)
- Contact Name
- Neil Widdop
- Contact Email
- neil.widdop@defra.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7826950799
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 4DF
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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