Published date: 23 April 2019

Last edited date: 23 April 2019

This notice was replaced on 23 April 2019

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Opportunity (published 23 April 2019, last edited 23 April 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£300,000

Procurement reference

BRISTOLCC001-DN361762-61093840

Published date

23 April 2019

Closing date

24 May 2019

Contract start date

25 June 2019

Contract end date

24 June 2022

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Bristol City Council (the "Authority" or "BCC") is wishing to procure a support and hosting service for its existing Unit 4 Business World system ("UBW") used for Finance, which was implemented in 2012 and operational from April 2013.
BCC has an in-house team of 6 FTE who support day to day application administration and maintenance such as report development, user administration, support calls from end-users, initial fault fixing. Any support required above this is provided by the current support provider and forms part of the opportunity.
Over the life of this contract BCC are looking to drive significant improvements in finance processes across the Council and looking to automate many of the current manual processes.
BCC want to improve end-user experience, with regard to the quality and availability of information used in decision making across the organisation. Part of our requirements on commencement of the new contract is a comprehensive health check on the current setup and use of the system to inform a development plan to support these objectives.
This also includes improving our system performance in particular by changing the way our system stores BLOB files.
This contract underpins a core business system of the utmost importance to the organisation. With this in mind, BCC is looking for a strategic partner not merely a service provider.
Please see tender documentation for further information on this opportunity.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Hosting and support for finance system

  • Opportunity
  • Published 23 April 2019

About the buyer

Contact name

Sarah Boston

Address

City Hall
Bristol
BS1 5TR
England

Telephone

07464 989881

Email

sarah.boston@bristol.gov.uk

Website

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/