Notice Information
Notice Title
Progress Licence and Software Maintenance
Notice Description
This contract is for the Annual licence Maintenance and support for NLC Progress applications deployed on Unix servers.
Lot Information
Lot 1
There are currently 6 Progress applications residing on the councils Unix Solaris estate - all developed in-house over the last 20 years, namely: Building Cleaning Management System (BCMS) - provides work order and recharge facilities, for the maintenance of council facilities. Municipal Bank - manages the council's bank (recently the bank service has stopped but the management of the legacy account information remains for a 6-year period). Home Insurance - manages council house insurance for tenants. Housing Services Management System (HSMS) - manages multiple Housing Service-related functions including Tenancy Management, Rent Accounting, Common Housing Register and Allocations, Homelessness, Arrears and Court Processing, Housing Support, Repairs and Maintenance, Gas Servicing, Property and Estate Management, Anti-Social Behaviour. Application Control System (ACS) - manages the batch processing for all Unix hosted Progress and Oracle applications and databases. GIFT - file transfer management system for BACS, ledger, files etc. This agreement supports the above.
Procurement Information
The circumstances in which the Council may award a contract without competition are set out in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (the "Regulations"), Regulation 33. The procuring service has advised that as per the Regulations, this NTP was submitted on the basis of Regulation 33(1)(b)(ii) "competition is absent for technical reasons".
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000795291
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=APR527513
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract 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
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- 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
- £198,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Apr 202510 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 17 Mar 202511 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- corporateprocurement@northlan.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 3451430015
Buyer Location
- Locality
- MOTHERWELL
- Postcode
- ML1 1AB
- Post Town
- Motherwell
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM34 North Lanarkshire
- Delivery Location
- TLM84 North Lanarkshire
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- Local Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Electoral Ward
- Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig
- Westminster Constituency
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=APR527513
Progress Licence and Software Maintenance - This contract is for the Annual licence Maintenance and support for NLC Progress applications deployed on Unix servers.
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