Notice Information
Notice Title
UKRI-4610 Eclipse Suite RAL Space 2025-30
Notice Description
UK Research and Innovation, Science and Technology Facility Centre had a requirement for the Eclipse system.
Lot Information
Lot 1
UK Research and Innovation, Science and Technology Facility Centre had a requirement for the Eclipse system. Expression of Interest advertised during December 2024 and only 1 supplier can fulfil the requirement, which is the current supplier.
Procurement Information
Serco is the only supplier of the Eclipse system and Eclipse is the only document management system which integrates NCRs and Actions as concluded by the tender action which determined our use of Eclipse from 2017. Significant advantages accrue from our use of Eclipse because it is widely used across the European space industry. ESA uses it on all its large projects, and it is also used by all the prime contractors in Europe (Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and OHB) who are the immediate customers for many of our projects. Eclipse provides specific functionality for the easy export and import of collections of records and files between different instances of the tool suite; loading information into customer and ESA instances of Eclipse is required on multiple large projects in RAL Space and being able to do so natively from our own Eclipse server makes this straightforward and significantly improves our efficiency.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04e9a3
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007975-2025
- 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
- £460,140 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 5 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 12 Feb 20251 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
- STFC Procurement
- Contact Email
- stfcprocurement@ukri.org
- Contact Phone
- +44 7720143639
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
- TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
-
- Local Authority
- Swindon
- Electoral Ward
- Rodbourne Cheney
- Westminster Constituency
- Swindon North
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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