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# Application Maintenance Support Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/application-maintenance-support-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02c451). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Financial Conduct Authority: "Application Maintenance Support Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 2 published lots. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Financial Conduct Authority](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/fca-gov-ot1085)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Computer-related services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £2,566,596 (exc. VAT, 2 contracts)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02c451`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/application-maintenance-support-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02c451#tl-md)

## Description
The FCA is extending it's current Application Maintenance Support into Year 4 of the 5 Year terms.  The Services include the following, details are:
- Support and maintenance of bespoke, COTS (commercial off the shelf products), Cloud Services including SaaS (Software as a Service and PaaS (Platform as a Service;
- Resolving software problems that cause the system to be inoperative or to perform incorrectly;
- Providing Incident and Problem Management services in relation to the in scope Applications;
Implementing improvements and enhancement to the Applications;
- Delivering operational change, supporting and accepting changes into the live environment;
- Database and Middleware support for some Applications;
- Liaison with FCA Business teams to support User Acceptance;
- Management of 3rd Party Suppliers as part of the end to end delivery;
- AppDev.

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Application Maintenance Support Services (Legacy)
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 72500000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** This is the Year 4 extension of the Original Contract for Lot 2 of Application Maintenance Support Services.
During the original Tender process, which commenced in 2017, the FCA created Lot 1 to reduce the number of legacy estate suppliers to 1.  The...

- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Application Maintenance Support Services
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 72500000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** This is the Year 4 extension of the Original Contract for Lot 2 of Application Maintenance Support Services.
The extension for Lot 2 into Year 4 of a possible 5 Year term will cover the following main activities.  Details are:
- Support and maintenan...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** Application Maintenance Support Services (active)
  - Award id: `015583-2021-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Sopra Steria Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-42163`
  - Value: £255,677 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Application Maintenance Support Services (active)
  - Award id: `015583-2021-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Sopra Steria Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-42163`
  - Value: £2,310,919 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** Application Maintenance Support Services (active)
  - Signed Value: £255,677
  - Signed Date: 14/05/2018

- **Contract:** Application Maintenance Support Services (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,310,919
  - Signed Date: 14/05/2018

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015583-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-07-06T15:15:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T10:35:28.544Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02c451