Award

Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)

MIDLAND HEART

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Award

28 Nov 2025 at 16:36

Tender

27 Mar 2025 at 15:00

Summary of the contracting process

The procurement process for "Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)" was conducted by Midland Heart, a public undertaking based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This contract, categorised under IT services, aimed at addressing the need for a comprehensive Enterprise Release Management solution to improve the pace of project delivery by resolving contention on test and development environments. The procurement was conducted using a competitive flexible procedure and progressed to the award stage, with TXP Solutions Ltd being selected as the supplier. The contract, valued at GBP 447,820, is scheduled to start on 12th December 2025 and potentially extend until 2027, following a standstill period ending on 10th December 2025.

This tender represents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in IT consulting, software development, and infrastructure solutions, as it involves transitioning from on-premises systems to cloud-based models. Companies with expertise in Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) practices and API architecture transformation are particularly well-positioned to leverage this contract for business growth. The process also encourages suppliers to suggest innovative solutions, making it a fertile ground for enterprises looking to introduce cutting-edge technology innovations. This offers considerable growth potential for companies eager to establish a partnership with a leading public undertaking in the UK.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)

Notice Description

The objective of this tender exercise is to source a partner to work with us to resolve our contention on test and development environments, which is holding up project pace. We envisage a partner will deliver three things: An Enterprise Release Management (ERM) solution for Midland Heart (MH), providing the framework and processes that will enable Midland Heart to build, maintain and control environmental management, recommending and sourcing the tooling and leading the culture change and process change to deliver environments at pace. Recommending and sourcing a replacement of our legacy on-premises "point-to-point" API architecture that constrains the availability of integrated environments used for SIT and UAT with a new cloud-based hub and spoke model to support the vision of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development) practices. This will enable the automation, orchestration and controlled release of multiple integrated environments according to business need, using techniques such as API stubbing and mocking. The successful partner will work with our Northgate Housing supplier (NEC) to additionally migrate from On Premises to a virtualized hosted (OCI) solution in order to fully meet our environment flexibility requirements., as well as with suppliers (commercial and internal) of products that Northgate integrates to. Midland Heart intends to award a contract for a partner to conduct an analysis of our current APIs, and following successful delivery of this initial engagement, to source ERM tools, implement a POC and deliver a production environment with APIs (and non-API integrations where feasible) onboarded. Suppliers who wish to recommend alternative solutions to delivering our environment flexibility requirement are encouraged to suggest them in the dialogue process.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f998
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078245-2025
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Competitive flexible procedure
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
£447,820 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
28 Nov 20251 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
28 Nov 20251 weeks ago
Contract Period
12 Dec 2025 - 11 Dec 2026 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Pending
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
MIDLAND HEART
Contact Name
Alex Lawrence - Midland Heart
Contact Email
alex.lawrence@midlandheart.org.uk
Contact Phone
01216229143

Buyer Location

Locality
BIRMINGHAM
Postcode
B15 1LZ
Post Town
Birmingham
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLG West Midlands (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLG3 West Midlands
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLG31 Birmingham
Delivery Location
TLG West Midlands (England)

Local Authority
Birmingham
Electoral Ward
Ladywood
Westminster Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

TXP SOLUTIONS

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