Published date: 19 November 2020

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


Closing: 11 November 2020, 1pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package suites - 48422000

Location of contract

SP11 8HJ

Value of contract

£269,254.39

Procurement reference

701162382

Published date

19 November 2020

Closing date

11 November 2020

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

1 January 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2023

Contract type

Supply 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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Army Digital Services (ADS) currently provides hosting and through-life application-based Information Services to the Army and wider Defence. It delivers hosting capability across 3 domains and currently supplies application services that support a wide range of functions. These contribute directly and indirectly to D Info's missions and tasks as given in the Army Command Plan. They also support Army HQ, Field Army, Home Command as well as support TAFMIS and DLMC activities. The platform investment and Agile development approach established by ADS in recent years has been heralded as best practice by Government Digital Services (GDS) and industry alike. ADS is currently unique in Defence as the only organisation to in-house deep specialists that develop and deliver information services at a significantly reduced cost in-line with Cabinet Office direction. For these resources to be successful in their work they are reliant on critical Dev, Test and Operational software to be licenced and evergreen in nature.

In November 2018 the TAFMIS service was brought under MoD control and management within ADS which is hosted on the Army Hosting Environment (AHE).

The TAFMIS RogueWave Licence is expected to be required until TAFMIS is replaced by DLMC. TAFMIS RogueWave licence will ensure availability of TAFMIS on the AHE.

The renewal of the licence is critical to ADS for the delivery of TAFMIS Development, Test and live support both at the Application and Platform level and supports the ongoing maintenance and security patching on the Army's cloud hosting infrastructures of the AHE Official and Official Sensitive environments. The RogueWave licences are used to provide the presentation of the TAFMIS course schedule, and course scalar.

Award information

Awarded date

19 November 2020

Contract start date

1 January 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2023

Total value of contract

£269,254.39

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

XMA LIMITED

Address

44 Nottingham South & Wilford Industrial Estate
NG11 7BH
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 02051703

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

D Info Commercial, IDL 1, Blenheim Bldg
Army HQ
Andover
SP11 8HJ
England

Email

pauline.hewish662@mod.gov.uk