Published date: 12 April 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 23 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£200,000 to £250,000

Procurement reference

BFDMDC001-DN403516-58633531

Published date

12 April 2019

Closing date

23 April 2019

Contract start date

1 May 2019

Contract end date

30 April 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Negotiated procedure

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Council requires an urgent contract to support urgent delivery of a Housing Options System. The original tender was conducted in Oct 17 and awarded to the winning bidder in Feb 2018. The winning bidder agreed "GO Live" date of Sept 2018 for the full system. The homelessness module went live in April 18 but the remaining modules were not delivered by the agreed "Go Live" In March 2018 after a number of contractual breaches and a failure to deliver the full solution the Council agreed with the bidder to vary the contract and release the parties from the remaining contractual commitments. A competitive procedure and implementation will take 12 months, added to the 7 months delay to date this would delay the Council by 19 months, this is not acceptable and carries significant reputational risk. Civica have a mature and well developed solution that will only require a small amount of configuration to meet the needs of the Council, the Council has internal resources with Civica development skills. This will allow the Council to implement a solution within 6 months and to move at a fast pace utilising internal expertise and a Vendor with a significant pool of developers able to respond quickly and effectively to our needs.

About the buyer

Contact name

Zoe Nichols

Address

Britannia House
Hall Ings
Bradford
BD1 1HX
England

Email

zoe.nichols@bradford.gov.uk

Website

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc