Published date: 18 March 2022

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


Closing: 7 March 2022, 1pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Systems and technical consultancy services - 72220000

  • Software integration consultancy services - 72227000

  • Systems consultancy services - 72246000

    • Software consultancy services - 72266000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£462,440

Procurement reference

HCA001-DN597808-75632401

Published date

18 March 2022

Closing date

7 March 2022

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This project will define, design, and configure SharePoint Online to support HE's business needs and our adoption of MS365. This includes design and configuring SharePoint Online to function as our agency wide DMS. The project will appoint a Microsoft Partner who can assist the organisation on this journey, by providing the guidance, expertise, support, and training needed. It will configure our tenancy and provided reusable artifacts including templates for SharePoint Online hub sites and working areas, libraries and lists, data feeds and connections, permission settings and governance policies. It will recommend and configure the Power Apps, Power Automate and the tools needed to support SPO users. It will provide Governance currently not in place, including around Data Retention, Data Loss Protection, and Data Classification (Labelling). It will migrate content and forms from SharePoint On-Prem and enable HE to decommission this legacy system and archive any content that needs to be retained in long term digital storage. It will provide the knowledge transfer and training to support this platform going forward.\r
Problems this project will solve\r
• Lack of governance and control means Homes England MS365 tenancy exposes the organisation to risk beyond our appetite.\r
• Lack of governance of the platform, security controls, taxonomy, labels and metadata, retention policy, and correctly configured Compliance Centre has prevented SharePoint Online being adopted as our Document Management System.\r
• Lack of inhouse knowledge and skills means Homes England are not making most of the platform and the opportunities this provides. \r
• Department head and programme leads are frustrated by not being able to use SharePoint Online as this has not been certified for a range of use, delaying both process change and efficiency improvements that the platform could support.

Award information

Awarded date

18 March 2022

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£462,440

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Content and Code Ltd

Address

EC3M 5DJ

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Barry Stoker

Address

The Lumen
St James Boulevard, Newcastle Helix
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5BZ
England

Email

barry.stoker@homesengland.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england