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Published 6 May 2025, 16:55 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Oracle Cloud Licences for West Midlands Fire Service 2025-2030

Official notice

Authority: West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority (Police & fire)

Direct award
Awarded value£2,259,480published award · inc. VAT
Awarded 6 May 2025no call for competition
Awarded to Oracle Corporation UK Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Award of contract for Oracle Fusion Cloud SaaS Licences for West Midlands Fire Service for a 5 year period (2025 to 2030)

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
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
6 May 2025, 16:55 BST
Last source update
16 Jun 2025, 17:25 BST
Authority reference
C5812
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-032753
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050d6b Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Intellectual Property Exclusive Rights; Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification

Direct award justified as a special case.

This procurement meets schedule 5, paragraph 6 of the Procurement Act.

'The following conditions are met in relation to the public contract-

(a)due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and

(b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.'

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd develops the ERP cloud-based system used to manage business critical functions such as finance, payrolls, HR, procurement and organisational development. Moving away from Oracle would cause technical and migration difficulties and the cost to change to a different system would be prohibitive.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 May 2025 → 16 Jun 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Standstill ends
    15 May 2025, 23:59 BST
  2. Notice published
    16 Jun 2025, 17:25 BST

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 May 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    6 May 2025, 16:55 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    6 May 2025, 17:29 BST
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    19 May 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    16 Jun 2025, 17:25 BST
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value (inc. VAT) £2,259,4801 award inc. VAT; no net value published
Contracts signed 1latest 16 Jun 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Oracle Corporation UK Limited20 May 2025 – 19 May 2030£2,259,480 inc. VAT6 May 2025Awarded

Contracts

  • Oracle Cloud Licences for West Midlands Fire Service 2025-2030 · Oracle Corporation UK Limited

    Signed
    16 Jun 2025
    Value
    £2,259,480 inc. VAT
    Period
    20 Jun 2025 – 19 May 2030
    Status
    active

    No agreed KPIs: The contract is below the £5m threshold for KPIs

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PPTP-2948-MYQP Fire Service Headquarters, 99 Vauxhall Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B7 4HWContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • ORACLE CORPORATION UK LIMITEDAwarded supplierGB-COH: 01782505GB-PPON: PMDX-4517-DZXP Oracle Parkway, Reading, South East, RG6 1RAContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender