Published date: 30 January 2023

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: 16 February 2023, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

PO1 2PR

Value of contract

£1,200,000

Procurement reference

IT-39-823-23-CO-048 - IS - New ESB

Published date

30 January 2023

Closing date

16 February 2023

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

19 February 2023

Contract end date

20 August 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Overview
The University of Portsmouth is seeking to engage the market with regards the refinement of its requirements to procure an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). We are seeking assistance to help shape and enhance our current requirements before tendering the solution to the market in the next stage of the procurement process.
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is traditionally used to orchestrate all integrations and consists of a few tools that consolidate bespoke developments into a single solution that is both flexible and easy to monitor. These tools considerably reduce the work required to maintain communications between different applications.

At the time the University purchased the current ESB, most systems were hosted on site and very few of them communicated in a 'standard' way, instead of using bespoke integrations between systems. The ESB purchased was intended to handle all these requirements with the flexibility to adapt to future requirements.

The University's approach to integrations has since changed; many on-site systems have been replaced with cloud hosted alternatives, and are becoming more standardised in the way they communicate, with a drive towards a publish and subscribe methodology.

The way the University pays for these systems is also changing - rather than buying licences, new solutions are typically based on pay per usage. In the past we did not have to consider the amount of data we moved between systems; with cloud based systems we have to be careful because there is often a charge associated with moving data.

More information

Links

Additional text

To Express an Interest in this project please register on the University of Portsmouth In-Tend webpage and express an interest in this project. Please find the weblink for our webpage below:https://in-tendhost.co.uk/port/

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Chika Okoh

Address

St Michaels Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2PR
United Kingdom

Telephone

02392847777

Email

chika.okoh@port.ac.uk