Published date: 2 May 2018

Last edited date: 2 May 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 4 May 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

SW1A 0AA

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

PI1300867

Published date

2 May 2018

Closing date

4 May 2018

Contract start date

1 November 2018

Contract end date

31 October 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Houses of Parliament have published this Prior Information Notice (\"PIN\") to try and identify potentially interested organisations with relevant expertise and experience to provide a Publishing system that will integrate with existing applications and software used in producing the Hansard documents every day. The system will support the no-fail publishing of business-critical documents for the House of Lords and the House of Commons on the Parliamentary website and as printed publications.

The Houses of Parliament wish to give notice of a potential contract opportunity for a Publishing System used to publish Hansard documents daily for the House of Lords and House of Commons, as web and printed publications.

One possible solution will be a system to provide the following:
The objective of this project is to identify an external supplier to develop, supply, maintain and support a publishing system to be used by an internal publishing team.
The publishing system must utilise XML technologies. This system must be capable of handling large quantities of data, and be highly robust: publishing activity takes place between 7pm to 5am on each date that Parliament sits. Hansard publications can range from 4-1,500 pages in length. Most content is text based though it can include non-text formats.
The system must enable the content to be grouped and published according to current 'structures\" - Parliamentary sessions, Bound Volumes, Daily parts and their associated index publications. It must have the ability for the publishing team to be able to adjust these structures and create new ones as required.
The system must enable the content to be outputted as PDF and XML. It must enable the content to be formatted according to current and future page layout styles. The system must enable the content to be published on our website in XHTML.
The system must be able to utilise XML files supplied from the Hansard Reporting System to allow the preparation of styled Hansard Publications as PDF and structured XML - which are used to publish Hansard on the Parliamentary Website.
This system must be powerful and efficient enough to handle business-critical productivity.
24/7 system support is required: publishing takes place in an incredibly time-critical environment so the supplier must be able to provide rapid, pragmatic and functional support.

Another possible solution will be to procure a contract for the maintenance and support of the existing (bespoke) software package.

Please note this is a Prior Information Notice and there are no tender documents to download or submit at this stage. If you are interested in this potential opportunity and would like to be kept informed, please submit your expression of interest via our In-Tend procurement portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home) by responding to this Prior Information Notice (listed within Tenders > Current). Please note that the de...

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Please note this is a Prior Information Notice and there are no tender documents to download or submit at this stage. If you are interested in this potential opportunity and would like to be kept informed, please submit your expression of interest via our In-Tend procurement portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home) by responding to this Prior Information Notice (listed within Tenders > Current). Please note that the deadline for expressions of interest is close of business on 30.4.2018. Parliament also intends to hold a Supplier Day to discuss our requirements in further detail. Interested suppliers should keep 17.5.2018 and 18.5.2018 free.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Parliamentary Procurement & Commercial Service

Address

Westminster
London
London
SW1A 0AA
United Kingdom

Telephone

02072191600

Email

ppcs@parliament.uk