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Published 1 Mar 2023, 08:50 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Gartner Expansion · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Education)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: West Midlands (UKG3)

Awarded value£148,483published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 17 Mar 2023no call for competition

Awarded to Gartner UK LTD2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

UoB ITS already have an existing agreement with Gartner that has another year to run.

Rather than source a separate capability from Gartner or another analysis provider, it made

economic and commercial sense to enhance our existing agreement to service this need.

CPV: Membership organisation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1As part of the Target Architecture work for UoB, it is vital that Digital and…Awarded

As part of the Target Architecture work for UoB, it is vital that Digital and Technology trends

are understood and contextualised as part of the landscape for IT at UoB. One of the best

ways to do this is to engage with an objective analysis and insight service such as Gartner.

The most valuable and efficient way to provide this thinking into the architecture is to

provide another seat to the Head of Architecture and Design rather than for that role top rely

on seeking such insights and analyses from an existing seated member. It also provides the

opportunity to establish frequent analysis in relation to the sector and the technologies that

serve it together with what other good organisations are doing with technology to service

business capabilities that may be common to our organisation. UoB ITS already have an

existing agreement with Gartner that has another year to run. Rather than source a separate

capability from Gartner or another analysis provider, it made economic and commercial

sense to enhance our existing agreement to service this need.

UoB ITS already have an existing agreement with Gartner that has another year to run.

Rather than source a separate capability from Gartner or another analysis provider, it made

economic and commercial sense to enhance our existing agreement to service this need.

Delivery: West Midlands

98100000 Membership organisation services

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: Services
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: 1 Mar 2023, 08:50 GMT
Last source update: 20 Mar 2023, 13:37 GMT
Authority reference: SC11463/23
FTS notice number: 2023/S 000-007999
Classification (CPV): Membership organisation services
Delivery area: West Midlands (UKG3)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03ad16 Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: ITS and UoB have built a number of Strategies based upon the analysis gained from the
arrangement with Gartner. To move to another consultancy now would potentially invalidate
the direction of those strategies and any current work underway.
They provide excellent context for us within the sector enabling us to benchmark against
other peer universities,
We are looking to engage with a peer network of other institutions that use Gartner so that
we can share and gain understanding of the analysis as it pertains to Universities in a general
context without giving away any competitive advantage of course.
To move to another supplier would reduce our access to strong and current analysis together
with future trend analysis.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 2

Awarded value £148,4831 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 2latest 17 Mar 2023

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Gartner UK LTD	£148,483 †same award published again · counted once	—	Awarded
Gartner UK LTD	£148,483 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 007999-2023-1 · Gartner UK LTD
Signed
17 Mar 2023
Value
£148,483
Status
active
Contract 005935-2023-SCSC11463/23-1 · Gartner UK LTD
Signed
1 Mar 2023
Value
£148,483
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation GB-COH: RC000645 EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, West Midlands, B152TTContact name, email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

University of BirminghamReview body Birmingham

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Gartner UK LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 02266016 Tamesis, The Glanty, Egham, Surrey, South East, TW20 9AH

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.