Published date: 1 August 2020

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


Closing: 25 October 2018, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data services - 72300000

  • Research services - 73110000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

    • Social research services - 79315000

    • Library services - 92511000

Location of contract

SE1 0LL

Value of contract

£468,000 to £724,500

Procurement reference

20200801003028-33133

Published date

1 August 2020

Closing date

25 October 2018

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The London Fire Commissioner requires an information service covering the following areas of activity:
1. Provision of an enquiry service (covering a range of activities from profiling to literature searching).
2. Production of alerting bulletins, highlighting new policy announcements, reports, official statistics, publications and research articles across a range of policy subject areas.
3. Supply of a daily information bulletin covering all policy areas relevant to the GLA.
4. Access to full text books, journals and newspapers.
5. Access to social / urban affairs database to enable GLA users, other public sector staff and paying subscribers to carry out their own searches for research articles.
6. Training to strengthen information literacy.
7. Promotion and marketing.
8. Contract management.
9. Hosting and server support.

The Commissioner will be entering into a Shared Services agreement with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to provide information services to their staff. The Contractor shall provide services to both the Commissioner and the GLA. The Commissioner shall be acting as contract manager on behalf of both parties.

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

12 March 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£724,440

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Idox Software Ltd

Address

2nd Floor
Waterside 1310
Arlington Business Park
Theale
Berkshire
RG7 4SA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Catherine Bray

Address

169 Union Street
London
SE1 0LL
ENG

Telephone

+44 2085551200

Email

catherine.bray@london-fire.gov.uk

Website

www.london-fire.gov.uk