Published date: 22 September 2020

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: 5 October 2020, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Imaging and archiving system - 48329000

  • Computer archiving services - 72252000

  • Archiving services - 79995100

    • Archive services - 92512000

Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

Market Testing

Published date

22 September 2020

Closing date

5 October 2020

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

25 October 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Birmingham City Council (BCC) are exploring the market for application retirement and archiving solutions. This soft market sounding may be of interest to suppliers of relevant products and services.
For those potential suppliers of products and services, this soft market sounding is an opportunity to:

o Inform the council of relevant products and services in a way that can be easily consumed by them.
o Help shape how the council considers the market when taking decisions on procurement scope and approach.
o Learn more about BCC prior to engagement through a potential future procurement process.

For Birmingham City Council, the purpose of this soft market sounding is to:

o Give the market an understanding of Birmingham City Council's needs for application retirement and archiving (an Archiving solution).
o Share the council's current thinking on trade-offs between scope, capability, and affordability that need to be made before decisions on the next steps are made.
o Find out current market interest in providing relevant products and services to the council.
o Find out delivery and market options, including potential cost and cost structures.
o Find out the experience the market has in delivering similar services at similar-sized organisations.
o Gain insight from the market when considering how best to deliver the service.

The council would very much like to hear from a range of different suppliers to the market.

If you feel that your organisation is able to contribute to this soft market sounding exercise please register your interest via the In-Tend portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc and return a completed questionnaire by 5:00pm on the 5th October 2020. The questionnaire and supporting information can be found on the In-Tend portal. Any questions relating to this soft market testing exercise can be submitted using the In-Tend messaging system, and will be responded to via In-tend.

More information

Links

Additional text

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

David Waddington

Address

10 Woodcock Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7WB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 464 8000

Email

David.Waddington@birmingham.gov.uk

Website

www.in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc