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Licence Subscription Ingres/OpenRoads

Information technology services
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Health & Safety Executive: "Licence Subscription Ingres/OpenRoads". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityHealth & Safety ExecutiveScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for Health & Safety Executive. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
15.1Bids / Report
3.2% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
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Coverage: 40 active published awards; 31 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityHealth & Safety Executive
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published21 Dec 2023, 09:45 GMT
Last source update21 Dec 2023, 09:45 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationInformation technology services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-042906
What is being bought
Licence Subscription for data base application and website hosting
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    21 Dec 2023, 09:45 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    21 Dec 2023, 09:45 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    21 Dec 2023, 09:45 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    Licence Subscription for data base application and website hosting
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    21 Dec 2023, 09:45 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 21 Dec 2023, 00:00 GMT · £0
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Actian UK LTD
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£0 · signed 21 Dec 2023, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Health & Safety Executive

Contracting authority GB-FTS-35175
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  • Health & Safety Executive
    buyer

    Redgrave Court,Merton Road, BOOTLE, UKD73, L207HS
    tenders@hse.gov.uk

  • Actian UK LTD
    supplier

    GB-COH: 14803170
    London, UK

  • Health And Safety Executive
    reviewBody

    Liverpool
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleRegulation 32 exempt: 32(2)(b)(ii) whereby competition is absent for technical reasons. HSE asserts its belief that Actian UK Ltd. is the only economic operator in the EU that is capable of supporting HSE in respect of delivering the services required. The contract is for licence subscriptions and database hosting. The licences permit the continued use and support of the products on application servers, (hosted) database servers and user licences for use of the products. Actian UK Ltd. owns the intellectual property and copyright; it sells licences and services direct to its customers and the licences and services are not available through resellers or any other third party.  Licences are enabled by a unique key, provided by Actian UK Ltd. without which all products cease to work, functionality ceases and data becomes unavailable.  All of Chemical Regulation Division's (a Division of the Health and Safety Executive) current business systems (circa 90) have been built using Actian's OpenRoad Applications and Ingres Databases.  These systems were first built in 1995, transferred to HSE ownership from DEFRA in 2008 and have been in constant use since then, iterated upon and improved.   Some of these systems are public facing and all 90 systems have to be replaced or decommissioned to allow this product suite to be removed from the HSE IT estate.  As such, they are embedded inextricably in CRD's business operations. The CRD Biocides and Pesticides Transformation Programme (BPT) is targeting the removal of most of these services.  HSE has procured the replacement Case Management and Database System in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the BPT Programme has procured the Systems Integrator to design and build new services which will replace the existing services that are on Actian, ultimately conducting a data migration of data out of Actian and into Dynamics 365.   Consequently, Actian will not be replaced with a "like for like" contract or solution, and will be decommissioned once new services are ready. It was fully anticipated that replacement would be a multi-year activity due to the scale of business process reengineering, design and service development.  The BPT programme is behind schedule due to technical complications and, whilst delivering some replacement services in March 2024, it will not deliver all of its objectives for at least 24 months.   HSE asserts its belief that it is not reasonable technically to expect that alternative services, to those either built on Actian's existing solutions or being developed by the BPT programme, could be procured to design and develop systems before the current replacement programme is expected to deliver its outcomes.  Continued use of Actian is therefore considered the only reasonable technical mechanism to maintain the services supporting HSE regulatory duties alongside delivering its replacement programme.