Published date: 8 May 2017

Last edited date: 8 May 2017

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Awarded contract (published 8 May 2017)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages - 30000000

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

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

    • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

SN21FL

Value of contract

£0 to £50,000

Procurement reference

IT17040

Published date

8 May 2017

Closing date

14 March 2017

Contract start date

22 March 2017

Contract end date

21 March 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Through this tender, we expect to find an organisation who:
• Can give us access to a minimum of 200 other funders funded information
• The ability to refresh and cleanse the data held.
• The ability to upload and store large documents of unstructured data for analysis.
• De-duplicates and maps the information across their network of funders, ensuring that our analysis is more comprehensive
• Allows us to upload and amalgamate our private information on funding with our public portfolio. This private data is to be treated as confidential and is not to be shared with any other party.
• Can take a direct feed from our internal systems, so that we do not have to upload our ongoing information continually
• Offers web-based analytical tools which they maintain and gives us access to these included in our subscription
• Allows us to upload unstructured information, for analytical purposes
• Can offer user friendly front-end dashboards to non-specialists
• Can offer us the flexibility to add taxonomies, queries or views that we can create and share throughout the organisation
• Offer the service to a minimum of 30 users, however we may require access for additional users in the future.
• The analytical tool will allow us to cut the information in a variety of ways, including but not limited to; by discipline, sector, region, topic, funder, etc
• We expect that the spread of sectors, industries and disciplines will include but not be limited to arts and humanities data:

About UK Shared Business Services

Putting the business into shared services
UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) brings a commercial attitude to the public sector; helping our customers improve efficiency, generate savings and modernise.
It is our vision to become the leading provider for our customers of shared business services in the UK public sector, continuously reducing cost and improving quality of business services for Government and the public sector.

Our broad range of expert services is shared by our customers. This allows our customers the freedom to focus resources on core activities; innovating and transforming their own organisations.

Core services include Procurement, Finance, Grants Admissions, Human Resources, Payroll, ISS, and Property Asset Management all underpinned by our Service Delivery and Contact Centre teams.
UK SBS is a people rather than task focused business. It's what makes us different to the traditional transactional shared services centre. What is more, being a not-for-profit organisation owned by its customers, UK SBS' goals are aligned with the public sector and delivering best value for the UK taxpayer.
UK Shared Business Services Ltd changed its name from RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd in March 2013.
Our Customers
Growing from a foundation of supporting the Research Councils, 2012/13 saw Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) transition their procurement to UK SBS and Crown Commercial Service (CSS - previously Government Procurement Service)

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About the buyer

Contact name

ICT procurement

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue,
Swindon,
SN2 1FF
England

Telephone

01793867000

Email

ictprocurement@uksbs.co.uk