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title: "Transformation of Legacy Finance, Purchase-To-Pay, and Business Planning Systems"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000749393"
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buyer: "FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND"
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# Transformation of Legacy Finance, Purchase-To-Pay, and Business Planning Systems

Buyer: FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000749393

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## Summary

The Forestry and Land Scotland has awarded a contract for the "Transformation of Legacy Finance, Purchase-To-Pay, and Business Planning Systems" to Oracle Corporation UK Ltd. The procurement process, initiated through a tender, aimed to replace existing systems with a cloud solution. The contract was signed on 8th September 2023 and is valued at approximately 4.99 million GBP. The procurement falls under the services category and was conducted through an open procedure.

This tender opportunity by Forestry and Land Scotland presents businesses with a chance to provide cloud solutions and implementation services. Companies specializing in technology and system integrations, particularly those with experience in finance and HR systems, would be well-suited to compete. The contract aims to implement an integrated enterprise system supporting finance, purchase to pay, and business planning processes, providing opportunities for businesses to contribute to digital transformation initiatives and meet sustainability targets outlined by the buyer.

## Notice

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) are looking to procure a cloud solution and implementation services to replace the organisation's current legacy Finance, Purchase to Pay, and Business Planning systems. In addition to the above-noted core solution and related services, FLS may require the provision of certain optional solutions and services and/or additional solutions and services relating to FLS's HR and Payroll systems, which optional or additional solutions and/or services would be required to provide FLS with seamless data flow between its HR and Payroll systems and its Finance, Purchase to Pay and Business Planning systems. There is no obligation on FLS to require the provision of any such optional or additional solutions and/or services by the successful tenderer, nor on bidders to provide these, and FLS shall be entitled at its discretion to procure any solutions and/or services that are the same as or similar to the optional or additional solutions and/or services from any third party. Further detail in relation to the specification of the above-noted core solution and related services and the optional or additional solutions and/or services and FLS's requirements in relation thereto will be contained in the procurement documents relative to this contract opportunity

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The purpose of this procurement is to implement a modern, integrated, modular, enterprise system with a centralised database that has the ability to support FLS' finance, purchase to pay and business planning processes. It must be able to integrate with 3rd party systems, operate in real-time, provide meaningful management information and have a consistent look and feel across all business modules. The solution will provide the foundation for Digital Transformation across FLS and the delivery of the FLS draft Digital Strategy. The contract will be subject to Community Benefits and support FLS to meet their requirements of the Climate Change (Duties of Public Bodies: Reporting Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020 and the sustainability targets. The estimated value of this procurement is circa 4.5M GBP - 6M GBP

Options: This procurement requirement was for a system integrator and licenses for said system. This contract was awarded to both Mastek Systems Company Limited and Oracle Corporation UK Limited. They provided a joint bid for this tender. This notice will be for the Oracle Corporation UK Limited (licensing) element of the tender. The contract value licensing for the 7 year (1+1+1 optional extension) duration of this contract is 1,507,581.65 GBP. As part of this tender, FLS included an optional HR system. This is an Oracle system with a value of 3,482,493.72 GBP. This brings the total value of this contract with Oracle Corporation UK Limited to 4,990,075.37 GBP. The original contract award notice ID: OCT489796.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV493330 |
| Notice type | OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 8 Sep 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £4,990,075 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND |
| Locality | INVERNESS |
| Post town | Inverness |
| Postcode | IV3 8NW |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM2 Highlands and Islands |
| ITL 3 | TLM20 Highlands and Islands |
| Local authority | Highland |
| Electoral ward | Inverness West |
| Westminster constituency | Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire |
| Delivery location | TLM Scotland |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | ¿ORACLE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
- 48 - Software package and information systems
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 77 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

### Codes

- 30196000 - Planning systems
- 48000000 - Software package and information systems
- 48440000 - Financial analysis and accounting software package
- 48441000 - Financial analysis software package
- 48442000 - Financial systems software package
- 48443000 - Accounting software package
- 48451000 - Enterprise resource planning software package
- 48490000 - Procurement software package
- 72212451 - Enterprise resource planning software development services
- 72263000 - Software implementation services
- 77000000 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

## Release History

- 23 Nov 2023 at 00:00 - Award - OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV493330

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV493330
  Transformation of Legacy Finance, Purchase-To-Pay, and Business Planning Systems - Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) are looking to procure a cloud solution and implementation services to replace the organisation's current legacy Finance, Purchase to Pay, and Business Planning systems. In addition to the above-noted core solution and related services, FLS may require the provision of certain optional solutions and services and/or additional solutions and services relating to FLS's HR and Payroll systems, which optional or additional solutions and/or services would be required to provide FLS with seamless data flow between its HR and Payroll systems and its Finance, Purchase to Pay and Business Planning systems. There is no obligation on FLS to require the provision of any such optional or additional solutions and/or services by the successful tenderer, nor on bidders to provide these, and FLS shall be entitled at its discretion to procure any solutions and/or services that are the same as or similar to the optional or additional solutions and/or services from any third party. Further detail in relation to the specification of the above-noted core solution and related services and the optional or additional solutions and/or services and FLS's requirements in relation thereto will be contained in the procurement documents relative to this contract opportunity

## Notice URLs

- http://
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000749393
- https://forestryandland.gov.scot

## Provenance

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