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Provision of Revenue & Benefits Solution

No classification published
Location not published
Published value
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council: "Provision of Revenue & Benefits Solution". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityBarnsley Metropolitan Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
9.8Bids / Report
16.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
Colas LtdTop vendor: 35.3% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 127 active published awards; 6 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Colas Ltd1 win£202,396
Vital Facilities Solutions1 win£120,000
VL TEST SYSTEMS LIMITED1 win£103,648
A1 ACCESS LIFTS LTD1 win£80,593
Tile Hill Interim and Executive1 win£66,906
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityBarnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
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
Published23 Apr 2026, 11:06 BST
Last source update23 Apr 2026, 11:06 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-066815
What is being bought
Revenues and Benefits solution, including hosting, maintenance, upgrades and ongoing support. These services are already embedded within the Council’s existing infrastructure and form a critical component of its delivery and supporting of statutory revenues, benefits administration and income collection services.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    23 Apr 2026, 11:06 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    13 Mar 2026, 00:00 GMT
  3. Status changed to complete
    12 Mar 2026, 10:29 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    12 Mar 2026, 10:29 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    12 Mar 2026, 10:29 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #LOT-0000
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    23 Apr 2026, 11:06 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 31 Mar 2026, 01:00 BST · £1,608,646
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
MRI SOFTWARE LIMITED
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Provision of Revenue & Benefits Solution
£1,608,646 · signed 31 Mar 2026, 01:00 BST · active
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026, 01:00 BST — 31 Mar 2033, 23:59 BST
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PYHH-2597-YVZG
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied

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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationale- a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from, or incompatible with, the existing goods, services or works, and - the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance. The contract is being awarded directly under Section 41 and Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023. - The existing Revenues and Benefits solution is an established, business critical system that underpins the Council’s statutory delivery of taxation, benefits administration and income collection. The solution is embedded within the Council’s digital ecosystem and is linked to multiple internal systems and datasets. - A change of supplier would result in goods or services that are incompatible with the Council’s existing systems, data models and integrations. Transitioning to an alternative supplier would require extensive system replacement, complex data migration and significant re engineering of dependent systems, increasing the likelihood of disproportionate technical, operational and service delivery risks. - Such incompatibility would present a risk to service continuity and create unacceptable operational risk in the delivery of statutory services. The Council therefore considers that the conditions for a direct award under Section 41 and Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 are fully satisfied. - The Council considered whether a wider market exercise would be proportionate but concluded that, given the scale of transition required and statutory risk involved, this would not represent an efficient or responsible use of public resources. Operational Continuity - Current solution supports critical services with proven reliability. It has been in long term operational use and has demonstrated reliability and stability within the Council’s digital environment. Maintaining continuity of this proven solution reduces operational risk and supports consistent service delivery to residents. - A change of supplier would require significant retraining for operational, technical and finance staff, alongside the redesign of established business processes that have been embedded over many years. This would place additional resource demands on services, increase the risk of user error during transition, and divert staff capacity away from frontline statutory duties. - Transitioning to an alternative solution would introduce a risk of disruption during system migration, including delays to benefit payments, billing and income collection. Any interruption to these functions could impact the Council’s ability to meet its statutory obligations and could have adverse consequences for service users who rely on timely payments and accurate financial processing. Financial Impact - Integrations with other systems across the Council would require detailed requirements gathering, implementation work, thorough testing, and ongoing support through third party/ external support. - The Council explicitly compared the cost of procuring the solution through a compliant reseller framework against a direct award to the software provider. These findings showed that a direct award would result in a lower total contract cost over the proposed term, delivering demonstrable cost avoidance of approx. £23,000 per annum compared to the reseller option. Selecting the lower cost option ensures that public funds are spent efficiently and economically. - The cost comparison focused on available compliant procurement routes for the incumbent solution, as alternative solutions would require full system replacement and transition costs materially exceeding the scope of this renewal.