Published date: 11 December 2024

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


Closing: 26 November 2024, 8:08am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services - 72222000

  • Information technology requirements review services - 72223000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£25,000 to £50,000

Procurement reference

C4A87400760

Published date

11 December 2024

Closing date

26 November 2024

Closing time

8:08am

Contract start date

16 December 2024

Contract end date

3 February 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The buyer has an urgent requirement to assess and undertake a health check against an application database on a internally hosted platform. Supplier is required to undertake a discovery and analysis piece against the database with the information below being a starter for the summary of information required to be collated.

The supplier is expected to produce a report document to the buyer outlining their summary position of the health of the database, their assessment of the maintenance of the databases and recommendation for improvements, taking into account the following:

- Security classification of data

• Respective sizes (GB / TB)
• Respective numbers of schemas / tables / columns per table / rows per table
• Data types of columns -
o Any data types such as GIS, JSON, XML in the tables
• Respective numbers and types of programmable objects - functions / stored procedures

Is data partitioned within tables
Are there dependencies (referential integrity) between databases?
Are target schemas provided or to be derived from existing source databases?
Ability to to tune the performance of databases
Bandwidth of network connectivity between servers, if applicable

A summary as to the health of the database and a summary of how the database has been administered, supported and implemented based on industry best practice.

The supplier will need to provide DV and NPPV3 resources to undertake this assessment and have the ability to work from Birmingham or London (Birmingham preferable)

More information

Links

Additional text

N/A

Award information

Awarded date

10 December 2024

Contract start date

16 December 2024

Contract end date

3 February 2025

Total value of contract

£14,425

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Datalynx Ltd

Address

Kings House Business Centre, Home Park Estate, Station Road
Kings Langley
WD48LZ

Reference

None

Value of contract

£14,425

About the buyer

Contact name

Gregg Williams

Address

DO NOT AMEND - Empress State Building
Lillie Road
SW61TR
UK

Telephone

07881262671

Email

gregg.williams@met.police.uk