--- title: "MIRANDA Sustainment" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, LAND EQUIPMENT, SEOC" published: "2018-08-21" --- # MIRANDA Sustainment Buyer: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, LAND EQUIPMENT, SEOC Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6219538c-8947-4ace-ba50-5cd52b983944.json) ## Summary The Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, SEOC is currently undertaking a tender titled "MIRANDA Sustainment" in the services sector, focusing on information systems and servers. This procurement is at the tender stage, with submissions due by 14 September 2018. The total value of the contract is approximately £6,500,000, and the contract period is scheduled to commence on 1 July 2019, lasting until 30 June 2022. The location for this procurement is Bristol, UK, covering a wide range of delivery addresses, including British Overseas Territories and Europe. This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses, particularly those specialising in IT service provision, application hosting, and data analytics. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) may find themselves well-suited to compete, given the focus on support services and continuous improvement in application development. Companies that can offer innovative data management solutions and robust IT infrastructures are likely to align well with the needs outlined in this tender, enabling them to strengthen their foothold in the public sector market. ## Notice The Management Information Reporting and Data Analysis (MIRANDA) application comprises a suite of ORACLE Commercial Off-The-Shelf tools which collectively provide an Agile Data Analytics platform allowing the Inventory Accounting Enabling Team (IAET) to carry out monthly and Financial Year (FY) end reconciliation of accounts, enables the analysis of the financial data and allows the reporting of that analysis to a large community of stakeholders (IAET, Operating Centres (OCs), Project Teams and Front Line Commands). MIRANDA is currently hosted on a dedicated Impact Level 3 infrastructure which is connected to the MOD Restricted LAN Interconnect (RLI) and accessed by an authorised group of Defence Information Infrastructure Future (DII (F)) users working on standard DII (F) or MoD NET User Access Devices (UADs). The application, whilst accessed from DII (F) UADs over the RLI, is not an ATLAS DII (F) delivery and requires hosting outside of the DII (F) infrastructure boundary using an appropriate List-X hosting solution. The target user community includes the contracting customer (DE&S Inventory Reconciliation Programme team) and the primary user is the MoD DE&S Fin IAET. However, all staff within DE&S Fin, the Finance Function, Project Teams and Front Line Commands may require access to the application. The following elements essential to maintaining the MIRANDA application and capability as a minimum: Application Hosting Environment: List-X Data Centre Hosting of Production, Pre-Production and Development environments including: Management, maintenance and support of Server Platforms (Hardware and Operating System) and Oracle appliances and databases including obsolesce and technical refresh. Management, maintenance and support of Storage sub-system and provision of data backup services including obsolesce.Provision of IT Service continuity services. In-Data Centre Local Area Network services. Infrastructure Boundary Security. Support Services including: Service Desk, Incident and Problem Management. User Account Management. Security Management. Application Data Support (import and export). Change and Release Management. Service Level Management. Application Support.Licencing management. Disaster Recovery planning. Business Continuity planning. Application Development and Continuous improvement including: Application development. Capability performance testing. Solution and Service continuous improvement identification and execution Additional information: To view this notice, register as a supplier here: http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/signup.html?userType=supplier and search for the notice with reference 'UK-Bristol: Information systems and servers.'. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/411b7713-d215-4410-9a57-cbd5167bfa0f | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Selective | | Procurement method details | Restricted procedure | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 21 Aug 2018 | | Submission deadline | 14 Sep 2018 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 30 Jun 2019 - 30 Jun 2022 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £6,500,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, LAND EQUIPMENT, SEOC | | Locality | BRISTOL | | Post town | Bristol | | Postcode | BS34 8JH | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England | | ITL 3 | TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire | | Local authority | South Gloucestershire | | Electoral ward | Stoke Park & Cheswick | | Westminster constituency | Filton and Bradley Stoke | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 48 - Software package and information systems ### Codes - 48800000 - Information systems and servers ## Release History - 21 Aug 2018 at 07:45 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/411b7713-d215-4410-9a57-cbd5167bfa0f ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/411b7713-d215-4410-9a57-cbd5167bfa0f 21st August 2018 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/signup.html?userType=supplier ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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