Published date: 4 May 2017

Last edited date: 4 May 2017

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


Closing: 29 September 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software support services - 72261000

  • Software development services - 72262000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£7,911,520

Procurement reference

DOS_009a Resource Augmentation for the Development and Live Support of the DWP Technology Children P

Published date

4 May 2017

Closing date

29 September 2016

Contract start date

22 February 2017

Contract end date

21 February 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Supplier is required to provide flexible capacity and capability to support DWP by providing technical specialist resource that can deliver outcomes in the areas of development activities necessary to satisfy the requirements for development/change/repair across a series of releases, and Live Support necessary to satisfy the requirements for a stable performance application/system of the DWP Technology Children Platform.
Key technologies are Siebel, BPM, OBIEE, Adobe and Documentum.

The new Supplier will need to gain an understanding of the existing solution to be able to provide support and to deliver future developments with minimal disruption. DWP retains the right to place resources into a team from other suppliers where a supplier or resource has a particular strength.
Typically resource will be required to work a minimum of 7.5 hours/day, 5 days/week. NB: Some weekend work will be required for discrete project work and support resource will be required to cover 24/7 on an on call basis.

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Award information

Awarded date

21 February 2017

Contract start date

22 February 2017

Contract end date

21 February 2019

Total value of contract

£7,911,520

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Address

18 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HS

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ed Foster

Address

Department for Work and Pensions, 301 Bridgewater Place
Warrington
WA5 6XG
England

Email

edward.foster@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

Website

www.gov.uk