Published date: 17 January 2019

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: 17 February 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data management services - 72322000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£4,000,000 to £8,000,000

Procurement reference

BIP69658874

Published date

17 January 2019

Closing date

17 February 2019

Contract start date

16 August 2019

Contract end date

15 August 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Negotiated procedure

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

Codification is the process of capturing key data attributes for 'Items of Supply' and 'Items of Production' used within Defence in a structured and standardised way across multiple systems and with the other NATO members.

The project is seeking to procure a proven, NATO-compliant solution/service, which supports both:

- NATO Specific data: These are agreed under NATO governance and shared with all member nations,
- Supply Management Data (SMD): Country specific data used to assist in the management and supply of items across the UK's Defence Support Network.

The authority is procuring an end-to-end managed service, including application, service management, interfaced with existing logistics applications and wider service management arrangements.

Option: See Section II.2.2)

Out of scope: The project is only looking at Codification Information Services to support business processes. The Codification activity itself is not covered by this project.

The deliverables MOD is expected to achieve through this project include:

1. A NATO-compliant, cost-effective Information solution/service to support Logistics Codification activities
2. Strengthened Master Data Management and reduction in data quality issues within logistics Information Systems
3. An 'evergreen' solution/service, open and supportable into the future, aligned with the MOD Defence Information Strategy

The anticipated service will provide:

1. Proven NATO-compliant capability to support the codification of NATO data (i.e. a solution currently in use in a NATO member country for the codification of logistics data). The system must be licenced for:
i. Approximately 300 Codification users (MOD including sub-contracted Contractor Logistics Support .
ii. Approximately 15,000+ query / requestor users (MOD and Industry). User searching to items, requesting a NCAGE, etc.
iii. 6,000,000 NSNs.
iv. 40,000 annual growth.
2. Configuration of a UK specific solution for UK national data codification requirement (SMD) (circa 50-100 data entities).
3. Integration to approximately 5 existing MOD inventory management and engineering systems.
4. Service management for 2nd and 3rd line support 24/7 operation, with MOD providing 1st line support.

The MOD will be seeking a single provider to deliver all capabilities.

The MOD shall provide hosting on an MOD accredited, JSP 604 compliant, UK-based data centre with 99.8% availability.

The MOD will not accept requests to extend the PQQ response period.


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About the buyer

Address

MOD Abbey Wood #4342
Elm 3b
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK

Telephone

+447790361105

Email

Marc.Hughes157@mod.gov.uk