Official UK procurement notice
Extension to Provision of Support and Maintenance for Exiting Content Management System
Authority: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionExtension to provision and support and maintenance of existing Content Management System.
CPV: Content management software package · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Support and maintenance of existing Content Management System
Support and maintenance of existing Content Management System.
Contensis is the current CMS used for the provision of intranet services within the University of Birmingham. The current agreement is due to expire on 30/11/2024. Over the next 12 months the University will be in the process of restructuring our entire website - both in terms of the user experience but also in terms of how that data is structured. As part of migrating to a new version of our current CMS we are overhauling the way the information is stored which will give us flexibility around the portability of the data in the future. Completing this phase of work will put us in a much better position in terms of being able to migrate to another CMS following a competitive tender exercise.
We are in the process of carrying out a rebrand and rebrand of components across the website. While these will be built into Contensis, we are building them into a digital design system in a CMS-agnostic way so that they are portable. In the future these can be moved to other websites/CMS platforms as needed. Completing this work before any market exercise has the potential to reduce implementation times should another CMS provider be identified. A two year contract extension will enable the University to prepare for a new contract to be in place from 01/12/2026.
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
- 29 Oct 2024, 09:57 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Oct 2024, 09:57 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-034951- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04b213Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The University is in the process of carrying out a rebrand and rebrand of components across the website. While these will be built into Contensis, we are building them into a digital design system in a CMS-agnostic way so that they are portable. In the future these can be moved to other websites/CMS platforms as needed, which can be included as part of the competitive procurement exercise to be undertaken.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zengenti LimitedSME | £240,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 034951-2024-1 · Zengenti LimitedSME
- Signed
- 29 Oct 2024
- Value
- £240,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- University of BirminghamReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Zengenti LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.