Published date: 22 June 2023

Last edited date: 28 June 2023

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 23 June 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software-related services - 72260000

Location of contract

LS2 7PD

Value of contract

£120,000

Procurement reference

CF-1666700D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

22 June 2023

Approach to market date

23 June 2023

Contract start date

12 September 2023

Contract end date

30 September 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

DHSC currently has a contract for software to enable emergency messages to be sent via phone call, SMS and email. This has been in use for several years within the department and supports mitigation of security and business continuity risks for DHSC.

The objectives of the BCMS software would be to:
• Support incident response processes and reduce administration costs for these areas
• Collation and reporting of incident management data and responses to improve reporting and reduce resources required for this
• Reduce resources required to produce Business Continuity Plans and conduct Business Impact Analyses, as well as the updating these documents
• Reduce resources required for the planning and delivering of Exercises
• Integration with existing DHSC business communications software (MS Teams) and data sets (D365) to reduce resource required to maintain separate data sets
• Ease of use to reduce training and development costs
• Identify associated risks linked to key systems and processes across business areas (Bowtie methodology)

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

DHSC: GO: Emergency Communication / BCMS System (23/24)

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 22 June 2023, last edited 22 June 2023

About the buyer

Contact name

Emma Grace Hudson

Address

Quarry Hill
Keighley
LS2 7PD
United Kingdom

Email

emma.hudson@dhsc.gov.uk