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# Geotechnical and Drainage Asset Information Management System (GDMS) Phase 13

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/geotechnical-and-drainage-asset-information-management-system-gdms-phase-13-ocds-h6vhtk-02b5f8). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Highways England: "Geotechnical and Drainage Asset Information Management System (GDMS) Phase 13". Published status: active. Published Value: £17,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Jul 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: highways.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Highways England](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/highways-england-GB-FTS-3441)
- **Published Value:** £17,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 1 July 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Data analysis services, Data capture services, Data management services, Data services, Data storage services (+4 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/geotechnical-and-drainage-asset-information-management-system-gdms-phase-13-ocds-h6vhtk-02b5f8#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b5f8`

## 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/geotechnical-and-drainage-asset-information-management-system-gdms-phase-13-ocds-h6vhtk-02b5f8#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [highways.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhighways.bravosolution.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/geotechnical-and-drainage-asset-information-management-system-gdms-phase-13-ocds-h6vhtk-02b5f8#participate

## Description
Highways England is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major (trunk) roads in England.
Civils asset management in Highways England includes drainage and geotechnical information, as well as pavements, structures and technology. Asset data enables Highways England to make informed decisions about the way it operates and maintains the strategic road network. Highways England continuously improves by gaining a better understanding of its assets through an asset delivery programme and investment in its asset management processes and systems. Highways England’s existing geotechnical and drainage asset information management systems (GDMS and Highways Agency Drainage Data Management System (HADDMS) respectively), are Highways England’s prime geotechnical and drainage asset information management systems for inventory and condition data. Management and upgrades to both asset information systems form part of a programme that has been ongoing for approximately twenty years. 
The geotechnical asset information system, GDMS, was re-platformed (working with Mott MacDonald and Bentley Systems (formerly Keynetix)) between 2017 and 2020 (“Phase 12”) to mitigate against the risks of software obsolescence and to meet current business needs. As part of the re-platforming, a key business goal was to provide a systems architecture that could facilitate a single, unified platform that catered for management of both geotechnical and drainage assets. Highways England has been granted a license to use and adapt the specially written software and associated documentation. In order to maximise Highways England’s investment to date, Highways England wishes to compete the ongoing support and iteration of this project as part of this procurement exercise.
This project, the GDMS Phase 13 project, shall provide:
a) IT service management for the geotechnical aspects of the GDMS platform that have been developed to date;
b) A replacement for the legacy HADDMS platform; and
c) Interoperability services with Highways England’s other systems.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 48984000, 71354100, 72000000, 72310000, 72313000, 72316000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The overall objectives for the GDMS Phase 13 project are:
a) To put in place all necessary IT service management, software licensing, hosting, and sub-contracting arrangements (the “Transition Services”) in order to operate and maintain the current G...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F011910-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-05-27T21:45:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T15:07:10.277Z
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