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Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)

Midland Heart

This public procurement record has 3 releases in its history.

Award

03 Feb 2026 at 10:59

UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Award

28 Nov 2025 at 16:36

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Tender

27 Mar 2025 at 15:00

UK4 - Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The procurement process for the "Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)" contract was conducted by Midland Heart, a public undertaking based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The process utilised a competitive flexible procedure and progressed from the tender stage in March 2025 to the award announcement by February 2026. The tender focused on IT services within the consulting, software development, Internet, and support categories, targeting solutions to enhance test and development environments. The contract commenced on 3rd February 2026 with a potential renewal for an additional year. The procurement method involved both open and selective processes, with the award being confirmed to TXP Technology Limited.

This tender presents substantial opportunities for businesses involved in IT services, particularly those specialising in enterprise solutions and cloud-based applications. Companies capable of providing innovative tools for API architecture transformation, automation, and continuous integration and development (CI/CD) practices stand to benefit. The project requires collaboration with existing solutions and a capacity for orchestrated environment release, offering growth potential for SMEs and larger firms alike. The competitive nature of the procedure ensures that businesses can engage in flexible discussions and propose alternative solutions, fostering an environment conducive to business growth and innovation.

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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/009353-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Competitive flexible procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

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
£447,820 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
3 Feb 20266 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
28 Nov 20259 months ago
Contract Period
3 Feb 2026 - 2 Feb 2027 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Midland Heart
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
BIRMINGHAM
Postcode
B15 1LZ
Postcode Area
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
2
Supplier Names

TXP Solutions Ltd

TXP Technology Limited

Further Information

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