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title: "Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04f998"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "MIDLAND HEART"
published: "2026-02-03"
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# Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)

Buyer: MIDLAND HEART  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04f998

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## Summary

The procurement process for the "Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)" contract was conducted by Midland Heart, a public undertaking based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The process utilised a competitive flexible procedure and progressed from the tender stage in March 2025 to the award announcement by February 2026. The tender focused on IT services within the consulting, software development, Internet, and support categories, targeting solutions to enhance test and development environments. The contract commenced on 3rd February 2026 with a potential renewal for an additional year. The procurement method involved both open and selective processes, with the award being confirmed to TXP Technology Limited.

This tender presents substantial opportunities for businesses involved in IT services, particularly those specialising in enterprise solutions and cloud-based applications. Companies capable of providing innovative tools for API architecture transformation, automation, and continuous integration and development (CI/CD) practices stand to benefit. The project requires collaboration with existing solutions and a capacity for orchestrated environment release, offering growth potential for SMEs and larger firms alike. The competitive nature of the procedure ensures that businesses can engage in flexible discussions and propose alternative solutions, fostering an environment conducive to business growth and innovation.

## Notice

The objective of this tender exercise is to source a partner to work with us to resolve our contention on test and development environments, which is holding up project pace. We envisage a partner will deliver three things: An Enterprise Release Management (ERM) solution for Midland Heart (MH), providing the framework and processes that will enable Midland Heart to build, maintain and control environmental management, recommending and sourcing the tooling and leading the culture change and process change to deliver environments at pace. Recommending and sourcing a replacement of our legacy on-premises "point-to-point" API architecture that constrains the availability of integrated environments used for SIT and UAT with a new cloud-based hub and spoke model to support the vision of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development) practices. This will enable the automation, orchestration and controlled release of multiple integrated environments according to business need, using techniques such as API stubbing and mocking. The successful partner will work with our Northgate Housing supplier (NEC) to additionally migrate from On Premises to a virtualized hosted (OCI) solution in order to fully meet our environment flexibility requirements., as well as with suppliers (commercial and internal) of products that Northgate integrates to. Midland Heart intends to award a contract for a partner to conduct an analysis of our current APIs, and following successful delivery of this initial engagement, to source ERM tools, implement a POC and deliver a production environment with APIs (and non-API integrations where feasible) onboarded. Suppliers who wish to recommend alternative solutions to delivering our environment flexibility requirement are encouraged to suggest them in the dialogue process.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009353-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large, SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 3 Feb 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 28 Nov 2025 |
| Contract period | 3 Feb 2026 - 2 Feb 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £447,820 |
| Contracts value | £447,820 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MIDLAND HEART |
| Locality | BIRMINGHAM |
| Post town | Birmingham |
| Postcode | B15 1LZ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG31 Birmingham |
| Local authority | Birmingham |
| Electoral ward | Ladywood |
| Westminster constituency | Birmingham Ladywood |
| Delivery location | TLG West Midlands (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 2 |
| Supplier names | TXP SOLUTIONS; TXP TECHNOLOGY |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 3 Feb 2026 at 10:59 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009353-2026
- 28 Nov 2025 at 16:36 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078245-2025
- 27 Mar 2025 at 15:00 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011591-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009353-2026
  3rd February 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078245-2025
  28th November 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011591-2025
  27th March 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
- https://in-tendhost.co.uk/midlandheart/aspx/Home

## Notice URLs

- http://www.midlandheart.org.uk
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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