--- title: "Sheep Enhancement Services" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04830c" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04830c" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04830c.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04830c.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "LIVESTOCK INFORMATION LIMITED" published: "2024-07-19" --- # Sheep Enhancement Services Buyer: LIVESTOCK INFORMATION LIMITED Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04830c [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04830c) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04830c.json) ## Summary The procurement process for the Sheep Enhancement Services is being conducted by Livestock Information Ltd (LI Ltd), a contracting authority owned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The procurement is in the form of a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CPN), with interested applicants required to register their interest by emailing commercial@livestockinformation.org.uk by 31st July 2024. The opportunity falls under IT services consulting, software development, Internet, and support, aimed at enhancing livestock movement information systems. The deadline for the tender submission is 31st July 2024, with a contract value of GBP 66,000,000. This procurement presents growth opportunities for businesses specialising in IT services and livestock technology. Companies with expertise in developing and delivering software solutions for livestock management, data analytics, and cloud services are well-suited to compete. The procurement offers a potential contract period of up to 5 years, including the migration to a new multi-species platform. Successful bidders will need to provide ongoing support, enhancements, and new features for the sheep application, with opportunities to expand the scope to include other species such as cattle and pigs. The procurement method is selective, and bidders will be evaluated based on their suitability as outlined in the procurement documentation. ## Notice Livestock Information Ltd (LI Ltd) provides livestock movement information for industry and government that enables : Better control of endemic livestock diseases Terminate exotic disease outbreaks quickly and efficiently. Drive positive changes in productivity and sustainability. Develop a competitive trade advantage by building trade partner and consumer confidence in the provenance of British meat and livestock products. LI Ltd is owned by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and is a Contracting Authority. The current contract is being delivered by a UK based provider with an offshore capability and is due to expire in April 2025, therefore the Authority is seeking expressions from economic operators who can provide the services. The sheep application is a component within the LIS multispecies animal movement system. Sheep movements are recorded though the sheep application customer website and through APIs for third parties such as markets and abattoirs. A back-office administration web interface is provided for customer service support teams. Data is provided and received from the Livestock Unique Identification Service (LUIS) the ear tag management system and consumed by LI's data and analytics reporting service known as the Data Barn. LUIS, Data Barn services and customer service support are out of scope for the sheep application support supplier. The supplier will provide capabilities to deliver application break fix support at Level 3 and Level 4, data fixes, sheep application enhancements or new features, testing, capacity and performance enhancements, Azure cost optimisation, security hardening and end to end testing. The scope will be expanded to include development, enhancements and support for additional species such as cattle and pigs. The supplier will follow LI's agile delivery framework and have the opportunity to bring their delivery experience and shape/improve the maturity of agile ways of working. Azure DevOps is used to maintain the programme and suppliers' backlogs, manage sprint delivery, test cases and pipelines. The supplier will conduct sprint planning in line with programme iteration planning, business priorities, interproject dependencies, two-week sprint cadence and align to LI's release milestones. The supplier will build Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipelines using the LI ADO instance and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for Infrastructure as Code and for application source code. The supplier will be responsible for managing pipeline deployments in non-production environments and will be working with the Testing provider and other suppliers. It is envisaged that the contract will commence onshore and will then be either offshored or nearshored when the services are mature enough to do so. ### Lot Information Lot 1 The Contracting Authority is seeking a supplier to provide ongoing capability to deliver the services described in II 1.4 across current live service(s), additions and enhancements to current live service(s), new multi-species platform services under development and the migration of current live services to the new multi-species platform. The contract term will be for a period of up to 5 years with an initial term of 3 years and the option for the Contracting Authority acting in its sole discretion, to extend for two further periods of 1 year each), aiming to commence on or around June 2025 Options: Please refer to the procurement documents Renewal: Refer to the procurement documents ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022568-2024 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Selective | | Procurement method details | Competitive procedure with negotiation | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 19 Jul 2024 | | Submission deadline | 31 Jul 2024 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £66,000,000 | | Lots value | £66,000,000 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Active | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | LIVESTOCK INFORMATION LIMITED | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South West London | | Postcode | SW1P 4DF | | 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 | TLI London | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### Codes - 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ## Release History - 19 Jul 2024 at 15:46 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022568-2024 ## Notice URLs - http://www.livestockinformation.org.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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