Official UK procurement notice
Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM)
Authority: Midland Heart (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe objective of this tender exercise is to source a partner to work with us to resolve our contention on test and development environments, which is holding up project pace. We envisage a partner will deliver three things:
An Enterprise Release Management (ERM) solution for Midland Heart (MH), providing the framework and processes that will enable Midland Heart to build, maintain and control environmental management, recommending and sourcing the tooling and leading the culture change and process change to deliver environments at pace.
Recommending and sourcing a replacement of our legacy on-premises “point-to-point” API architecture that constrains the availability of integrated environments used for SIT and UAT with a new cloud-based hub and spoke model to support the vision of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development) practices. This will enable the automation, orchestration and controlled release of multiple integrated environments according to business need, using techniques such as API stubbing and mocking.
The successful partner will work with our Northgate Housing supplier (NEC) to additionally migrate from On Premises to a virtualized hosted (OCI) solution in order to fully meet our environment flexibility requirements., as well as with suppliers (commercial and internal) of products that Northgate integrates to.
Midland Heart intends to award a contract for a partner to conduct an analysis of our current APIs, and following successful delivery of this initial engagement, to source ERM tools, implement a POC and deliver a production environment with APIs (and non-API integrations where feasible) onboarded.
Suppliers who wish to recommend alternative solutions to delivering our environment flexibility requirement are encouraged to suggest them in the dialogue process.
- How the procedure runs: This contract is being procured using the Competitive Flexible Procedure in line with the Procurement Act 2023. As part of this procurement procedure the following stages may be incorporated into the tender process: • Conditions of Participation • Invitation to Tender • Supplier Presentations • Clarifications • Dialogue • Final Bid stage if required Midland Heart reserves the right to modify the tender stages at any time during the process, at its sole discretion. All Contractors will be informed of any changes and, where required, agreement will be sought before proceeding. Midland Heart may also amend the ITT documents prior to the submission of tender proposals or extend the tender period at its sole discretion. All Contractors will be notified of any changes to the ITT or tender process via the Intend messaging portal.
- No preliminary market engagement: Not required.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Simple description: The full award criteria is available to view in the tender documents.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Mar 2025, 15:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 28 Jun 2025
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-011591- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f998Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
30 days
- How it runs
This contract is being procured using the Competitive Flexible Procedure in line with the Procurement Act 2023. As part of this procurement procedure the following stages may be incorporated into the tender process:
- Conditions of Participation
- Invitation to Tender
- Supplier Presentations
- Clarifications
- Dialogue
- Final Bid stage if required
Midland Heart reserves the right to modify the tender stages at any time during the process, at its sole discretion. All Contractors will be informed of any changes and, where required, agreement will be sought before proceeding. Midland Heart may also amend the ITT documents prior to the submission of tender proposals or extend the tender period at its sole discretion. All Contractors will be notified of any changes to the ITT or tender process via the Intend messaging portal.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 28 Apr 2025, 18:00 BST
- Submission deadline
- 28 Apr 2025, 18:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
27 Mar 2025 → 3 Feb 2026 · 7 dates- Tender notice published27 Mar 2025, 15:00 GMT
- Submission deadline28 Apr 2025, 18:00 BST
- Award decision expected by28 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Aug 2025
- Assessment summaries sent332 days ago28 Nov 2025
- Standstill ends319 days ago10 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published264 days ago3 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Mar 2025- Tender notice published27 Mar 2025, 15:00 GMTUK4
- Contract award notice published28 Nov 2025, 16:36 GMTUK6
- Status changed to complete28 Nov 2025, 16:36 GMT
- Procurement method changed28 Nov 2025, 16:36 GMT
- Contract signature expected11 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published3 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMTUK7
- Procurement method changed3 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| JUMAR SOLUTIONS LIMITEDSME, TXP TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDSMEjoint award12 Dec 2025 – 11 Dec 2026 · up to 11 Dec 2027Extensions: 1 years maximum | £447,820 inc. VAT | 28 Nov 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Environments - Enterprise Release Management (ERM) · JUMAR SOLUTIONS LIMITEDSME, TXP TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDSME
- Signed
- 2 Feb 2026
- Value
- £447,820 inc. VAT
- Period
- 3 Feb 2026 – 2 Feb 2027 · up to 11 Dec 2027 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- 1 years maximum
7 agreed KPIs: KPI 1 Invoice Timeliness · KPI 2 Service Availability · KPI 3 Implementation Milestones …
- KPI 1 Invoice Timeliness
- KPI 2 Service Availability
- KPI 3 Implementation Milestones
- KPI 4 Priority 1 Service Fix Times
- KPI 5 Priority 2 Service Fix Times
- KPI 6 Priority 3 Service Fix Times
- KPI 7 Continuous Improvement
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4final-stage tenders | 0 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- TXP Solutions LtdAwarded supplier
- TXP Technology LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender