Published date: 22 March 2019

Last edited date: 22 March 2019

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


Closing: 29 June 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Content or data standardization and classification services - 72330000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£734,000

Procurement reference

Prj_1685

Published date

22 March 2019

Closing date

29 June 2018

Contract start date

1 July 2018

Contract end date

30 June 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This requirement is for the ability to use Ab Initio's software, to allow the NDA programme to progress with Beta stage work.
Ab Initio has a meta data management tool, used to provide:
• Information about data such as data attribute names, data attribute nomenclature, relationships between attributes, data policies etc.
• An authoritative source of meta data providing a catalogue of data attributes or groups of data attributes and their associated definitions, polices etc.
• Linking of data attributes from source to destination model, module, DDB etc.
• Relationships between data attributes providing a hierarchy where applicable for re-use of common data attribute policies etc.
• Tagging information about data attributes which explain how these data attributes group together into modules and/or DDB's
• Versioning and historical information of data attributes, definitions, policies, DDB's, modules etc.
• Cardinality relationship information between data attributes, definitions, policies, DDB's, modules etc.
• Linking information between reference data and associated meta data.
• Intelligent data ingestion from various sources including; excel, XML, Databases, Data warehouses, schemas, SQL, ETL
The justification, for a STA, is that a contract could not be awarded following a procurement in 2017 and that a proof of concept in early 2018 demonstrated that further exploratory work should be conducted before a full requirement can be drafted, allowing for a competitive procurement to be conducted. This Tooling product has unique technical attributes to enable Beta work to be conducted. A Prior Information Notice was published in December 2018 (PIN ref: 2018/S 239-545971) to allow this requirement to be openly competed for any future contract award.

Award information

Awarded date

30 June 2018

Contract start date

1 July 2018

Contract end date

30 June 2019

Total value of contract

£734,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

AB INITIO SOFTWARE LIMITED

Address

3 The Heights
WEYBRIDGE KT13 0NYGB
UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

Companies House number: 239050821

Value of contract

£734,000

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Additional details

The justification, for a single tender action, is that a contract could not be awarded following a procurement in 2017 and that a proof of concept in early 2018 demonstrated that further exploratory work should be conducted before a full requirement can be drafted, allowing for a competitive procurement to be conducted. This Tooling product has unique technical attributes to enable this Beta work to be conducted. A Prior Information Notice was published in December 2018 (PIN ref: 2018/S 239-545971) to allow this requirement to be openly competed for any future contract award.

About the buyer

Contact name

NDA/EnDA Programme

Address

1, Trevelyan Square
Boar Lane
Leeds
LS1 6AE
England

Telephone

07785996889

Email

eaproc@nhs.net

Website

https://digital.nhs.uk/