Find a TenderAwarded without competition
Published 14 Sept 2023, 09:27 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Compliance and Assurance Software

Official notice

Authority: Derby Homes Ltd (Public body)

GoodsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Awarded value£189,329published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 25 Sept 2023no call for competition
Awarded to The Compliance Workbook Ltd2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Derby Homes Limited intends to contract for The Compliance Workbook (TCW) software, for the ongoing provision of a specialist, unique Compliance and Assurance software package. Derby Homes has published this notice and intends to award a contract to The Compliance Workbook Ltd.

CPV: Compliance software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Derby Homes Limited currently uses a specialist Compliance and Assurance software packageAwarded

Derby Homes Limited currently uses a specialist Compliance and Assurance software package. The contract will allow annual license purchases, support and maintenance. A change of product would have had a major impact on operational activities, and create significant costs of change. We do not believe a suitable alternative exists at this time.

Each month the organisation receives up to 1,800 documents across multiples compliance areas with essential information that could drive the direction of the organisation. Software capturing information from this provides evidence of compliance, asset information, improved data interpretation, supports remedial actions and output tracking, automated engineering and regulatory validation with reduced risk of human error. The Building Safety Bill and the Golden Thread of Information puts an onus on the organisation to see and do more with data.

TCW technology is a unique Compliance and Assurance software package, and we are using it to review documents electronically in a manner to extract all essential data needed to validate safety.

TCW performs extensive regulatory and best practice calculations to compliance documents to ensure all fields have been complete with accurate and valued information. The product then extracts any further actions or remedial works and provides a process for managing the assets compliance to ensure all outstanding tasks are remedied in a timely manner.

Research carrying out due diligence on other compliance packages suggest it is reasonable to believe TCW is the only product that meets all our requirements. Derby Homes have for

some time been inputting data into the software and configured it to our requirements. We believe a change of software at this time, if any suitable alternative is available despite our research thus far, would carry significant costs of change and pose risks to our compliance and assurance activities. Additional information: We intend to continue using the software for another 36 months and, if no suitable alternatives are notified to us in that time, potentially up to a further 36 months.

Delivery: East Midlands · Derby
Extensions: 36 month initial contract period with option to extend by up to a further 36 months subject to performance, costs being within value stated above, and any suitable alternatives to the software that may emerge during this time.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Sept 2023, 09:27 BST
Last source update
26 Sept 2023, 09:42 BST
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-028292
Classification (CPV)
Compliance software package
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03fc9d Find a Tender
Why no open competition
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification

Only one possible provider to meet all requirements has been identified. Derby Homes Ltd posted the VEAT notice to confirm no other options existed following our due diligence or if a tender is required in the future, to be transparent about action taken and why. The contract term will be for 36 months initially with option to extend by up to a further 36 months to allow a competitive process in the future if alternatives exist which we have otherwise been unable to identify.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £189,3291 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 2latest 25 Sept 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
The Compliance Workbook LtdSME£189,329 †same award published again · counted once—Awarded
The Compliance Workbook LtdSME£189,329 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

DERBY HOMES LTD

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawHousing and community amenities GB-COH: 04380984 839 London Road, Derby, East Midlands, DE24 8UZContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.