Planning

CFM0444 - Information Handling System

FIFE COUNCIL

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Planning

27 Oct 2025 at 00:00

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Notice Information

Notice Title

CFM0444 - Information Handling System

Notice Description

The Council requires a hub where users can access the system and have the ability to find any needed legislation or regulation to help ensure that whatever project they are working on is compliant with government law and standards.

Lot Information

Lot 1

The Council requires a hub where users can access the system and have the ability to find any needed legislation or regulation to help ensure that whatever project they are working on is compliant with government law and standards. A portal is currently used for this requirement that has 2 parts. The first part is the Construction Information Service legislation and technical information management solution. This service ensures that Fife Council will have access to the correct, current and complaint business critical information year-round. This service provides the Council access to 27,000 full-text PDFs with the ability to save, view, print, download, copy and paste any of these documents. There are over 350 publishers that add documents to this service. Fife Council require something equal in quality and quantity to this. The second part of the portal is Occupational Health & Safety Information Service. This single source library holds more than 90,000 documents from more than 400 publishers. The focus of this service is Health, Safety, Environmental and Fire. This service relates to risk management, hazardous substances and operations, control principles, movement of people and vehicles. Fife Council also require something that is equal in quality and quantity to this part of the portal. Overall, the current solution allows access to over 2.3 million industry standards, over 10 thousand engineering manuals, handbooks, reference books, over 76 million technical articles, journals and books, over 107 million patents, patent applications, unity models and abstracts and over 39 million industry-to-industry reference links across all hosted content

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000814041
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT542164
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
PCS Notice - Website Prior Information Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Goods
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

48 - Software package and information systems

CPV Codes

48810000 - Information systems

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£80,000 Under £100K
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
27 Oct 20253 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
31 Oct 2025Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Planned
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
FIFE COUNCIL
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
owen.maxwell-sw@fife.gov.uk
Contact Phone
+44 3451550000

Buyer Location

Locality
GLENROTHES
Postcode
KY7 5LT
Post Town
Kirkcaldy
Country
Scotland
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM0 Eastern Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM01 Clackmannanshire and Fife
Delivery Location
TLM72 Clackmannanshire and Fife
Local Authority
Fife
Electoral Ward
Glenrothes Central and Thornton
Westminster Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife

Further Information

Notice Documents

Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)

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