Published date: 30 August 2021

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


Closing: 5 July 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

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Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

QU493 - AWARD

Published date

30 August 2021

Closing date

5 July 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

2 August 2021

Contract end date

30 November 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Council recognises the importance of digital technologies in developing its economic recovery plans and enabling digital transformation of council services. It believes that it could have a multifaceted role in influencing and shaping City developments, projects and programmes that will enable the City to be established as a leading digital city on the global stage. Therefore it is developing a Digital City workstream as part of its Digital Birmingham brand as an opportunity to address city-wide challenges, and also to create the future proof infrastructure and necessary conditions and ecosystems to enable the City to achieve its strategic outcomes.

It aims to collaborate and consult with city partners and stakeholders to establish an evidence-based understanding of its current digital and smart city levels of maturity benchmarked against the world's leading cities and then use this as a basis for developing a robust Roadmap of deliverable and prioritised projects and programmes that would enable it to achieve the following outcomes;
(i) Birmingham is a recognised leading digital city under the Digital Birmingham brand
(ii) Birmingham is a preferred place of choice for digital innovation,
(iii) Increased levels of digital investment are attracted to the city,
(iv) Council services are utilising new technologies and innovative solutions,
The successful supplier(s) will be expected to use their knowledge and expertise to deliver the following outputs;

(i) Output 1 - Stakeholder Engagement
(ii) Output 2 - Smart city maturity assessment benchmarked against the leading digital cities across the world
(iii) Output 3 - A phased Roadmap setting out the projects and programmes deliverable over the short term and an outline of long term projects and programmes required over the long term
(iv) Output 4 - A recommended digital city governance structure aligned to existing City Governance
(v) Ways of Working and delivery of Outputs

It is intended that the contract will be for a period of 3 months commencing no later than 21/07/2021 until 21/10/2021. The contract is a fixed term contract with defined outcomes to deliver.

The Council will be using its free to use e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and potential suppliers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. If you wish to express an interest in this opportunity please click on the following link to access https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register. You will then be sent details on how to log on which will enable you to download all relevant quotation documentation.

If you are unable to register with In-tend or have any questions or problems on how to use this web site please either email us at: cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call CPS Helpdesk on 0121 464 8000.

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Award information

Awarded date

29 July 2021

Contract start date

2 August 2021

Contract end date

30 November 2021

Total value of contract

£82,940

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Jacobs UK Limited

Address

7th Floor, 2, Colmore Square, , 38, Colmore Circus, Queensway,, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B4 6BN

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

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