Published date: 22 July 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 15 July 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software programming and consultancy services - 72200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000

Procurement reference

20250722134705-72814

Published date

22 July 2025

Closing date

15 July 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

16 July 2025

Contract end date

17 July 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

UKAEA uses a self-hosted GitLab CE instance to manage and ensure quality against our internally developed software. It has broad usage, with 1500 users and close to 8000 projects. However, we have been tied to an out of support version (13.1.11) for the past three years, with a project to migrate the instance to new infrastructure and upgrade to newer versions running for the past year and a half. The project is nearing a phase where we can run a stable installation on the new infrastructure with data migrated from our existing instance. We are looking to supplement the team with deep GitLab knowledge to provide assurance that the migration and upgrade pathway is suitable for implementation. We expect the scope of the work to include:

Familiarisation with our existing GitLab instance, running on a single node + runners, with git repositories mounted over NFS.

Review of our migration strategy, to a single GitLab node + three-node gitaly cluster, with deployment and configuration automated via Ansible.

Assisting with implementation of any outstanding tasks identified as part of the migration strategy review.

Exposing any remaining errors in logs and assisting the team in triaging issues as they come up.

Advising on general good practice.

This is an award notice only after competition of an exercise via G Cloud 14.

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Award information

Awarded date

22 July 2025

Contract start date

22 July 2025

Contract end date

21 July 2026

Total value of contract

£50,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Ottra Limited

Address

124 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Guy Wells

Address

Culham Science Centre
Oxfordshire
OX14 3DB
ENG

Telephone

+44 0123546

Email

guy.wells@ukaea.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority