Published date: 24 July 2018

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


Closing: 12 January 2018

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1

Procurement reference

tender_155672/689974

Published date

24 July 2018

Closing date

12 January 2018

Contract start date

1 December 2018

Contract end date

30 November 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)

Anyone may ask to participate, but only those who are pre-selected will be invited to submit initial tenders and to negotiate.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The BBC requires a single supplier to provide Digital Testing Services, and associated activities, for our digital products, applications and websites, running on both digital and broadcast platforms, e.g. desktop computers ;mobile devices; internet protocol TV; terrestrial, cable, satellite TV; and the web, at any combination/stages of their product development. The required services include functional testing, non-functional testing and test management; using manual, exploratory and automated approaches. The successful supplier will be required to augment pan-BBC teams with additional software test resource and contribute to the BBC's Quality Assurance and Digital Strategies. The supplier's testing staff will be required to be suitably trained in order to be capable of being deployed flexibly at short notice and on-demand into BBC testing projects and teams including multi-geographically located, cross-functional project teams.

The BBC intends to award a Framework Agreement to a single Economic Operator following the procurement process. The Agreement will have a term of 24 (twenty-four) months commencing on 1.12.2018 and ending on30.11.2020. The Agreement may be extended at the BBC's discretion by up to 2 (two) successive 12 (twelve)month periods. We anticipate that the annual value will be between approximately 6 000 000 GBP to 7 500 000 GBP.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Digital Testing Services Framework II (CF)

  • Opportunity
  • Published 5 December 2017

Award information

Awarded date

18 July 2018

Contract start date

1 December 2018

Contract end date

30 November 2022

Total value of contract

£1

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

MindTree Ltd

Address

L72200KA1999PLC025564, Bengaluru, India

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Maria Larkin

Address

Broadcasting House, Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA
England

Email

maria.larkin@bbc.co.uk