Published date: 28 March 2025

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


Closing: 16 October 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information technology services - 72222300

Location of contract

B3 1AQ

Value of contract

£21,680,000 to £24,660,000

Procurement reference

CF-0477900D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

28 March 2025

Closing date

16 October 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 December 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Description of the procurement before modification

The digital services delivered by CCOE provide a critical service for Defra's user base >30,000 users which require service continuity for Defra to deliver a reliable platform service in its primary cloud environments (AWS/Azure). The CCOE Microsoft M365 platform administration team provides platform support to the common Microsoft platforms including, but not limited to, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Power Platform, Dynamics, and Teams. CCOE provide subject matter expertise on the products and services and platform level administration, including problem and incident management.

Description of the modification

This contract is being modified in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The modification will extend the contract for 4 months from 01/12/2024 to 31/03/2025. No other changes are being made to the scope of service.

Reasons for modification

Due to unforeseen delays and an elongation of the re-procurement process to facilitate an extended clarification period, the procurement of the new CCoE requirement will not be completed in time to enable commencement of the new CCoE services prior to expiry of the contract on 30 November 2024. A short-term extension is necessary therefore to allow completion of the re-procurement process and finalisation of work that is in flight and an appropriate period of transition to reduce service impact. A change in contractor would give rise to significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs as the new contractor would need to deploy significant resource to take on inflight projects, along with service risk due to insufficient time to complete a service transition and value for money considerations (due to the unattractive duration of contract to the market).

Award information

Awarded date

24 October 2024

Contract start date

1 December 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£2,980,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Eviden Technology Services Limited

Address

44 Esplanade, St Helier Jersey JE4 9WG

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Defra Group Commercial

Address

Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom

Telephone

03459 33 55 77

Email

network.procurement@defra.gov.uk