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title: "Hosting Services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-037dd8"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "MINISTRY OF JUSTICE"
published: "2022-12-14"
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# Hosting Services

Buyer: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-037dd8

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## Summary

The Ministry of Justice has awarded a contract for Hosting Services to CGI IT UK Limited. The contract is worth £39,963,000 and was signed on 17th November 2022. The procurement method was a limited Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. The procurement aims to provide centralised hosting for business applications, with a delivery location nationally within the UK. The service is being provided to support HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) centres and other locations.

This tender for Hosting Services provides an opportunity for businesses in the IT services sector, particularly those specializing in consulting, software development, and support. The contract with the Ministry of Justice involves the provision of centralised hosting for business applications until they are replaced, retired, or migrated to alternative solutions. CGI IT UK Limited, as the incumbent supplier, was selected due to technical reasons and the absence of competition for the required services. Businesses with expertise in legacy technologies and extensive experience in managing critical business services would be well-suited to compete for similar opportunities in the future.

## Notice

Provision of centralised hosting for business applications, in existing data centres, prior to such business applications being retired, replaced, or migrated to an alternative hosting solution.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Provision of centralised hosting for business applications used by HMCTS, from existing data centres, until such business applications are replaced, retired, or migrated to alternative hosting.

### Procurement Information

The Authority relies on Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) (Use of negotiated procedure without prior publication) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The services can only be provided by the incumbent supplier, CGI IT UK Limited, because competition is absent for technical reasons, no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement for the following reasons: (a) The Authority assets managed under the contract include numerous physical servers, virtual servers, and other devices, including firewalls, network switches and storage infrastructure. Few of these physical technology assets are less than 10 years old and there is a scarcity of expertise in the marketplace for supporting these legacy technologies. Replacement parts are also extremely scarce, which can result in material delays to resuming service in case of failure, causing extended outage to critical business services. (b) The age of the underlying hardware and software assets means that the legacy applications hosted in the current environment cannot be migrated to an alternative hosting environment without major software remediation work. There are applications that have business value and work to carry out this remediation in-situ and migration to an alternative hosting solution has already started and needs to continue. Migrating these applications before carrying out remediation work requires a double-hop migration which would result in a significant risk of service failure and costs. Other applications that will retire within the contract term will be decommissioned in place rather than incur significant time, cost, technical difficulty and technical risk in moving the applications and then decommissioning them. Within the term of the contract all application services will cease to be provided from the current hosting environment and the environment itself will be retired and decommissioned, including all physical technology assets managed under the contract. (c) Engaging an alternative supplier would lead to a substantial delay to the retiring and decommissioning the legacy hosting environment. This delay would increase exposure to the risk of extended outage to the critical business services provided by these applications. This would also involve a duplication of cost because the current data centres would need to be operational until all of the applications have been migrated to an alternative platform or decommissioned.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035388-2022 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 14 Dec 2022 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 31 Oct 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £39,963,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MINISTRY OF JUSTICE |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1H 9AJ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | CGI IT |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 14 Dec 2022 at 13:44 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035388-2022
- 31 Oct 2022 at 17:02 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030738-2022

## Notice URLs

- https://www.justice.gov.uk

## Provenance

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