Official UK procurement notice
Single Source Maintenance · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Met Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of a Single Source Maintenance (SSM) service for a period of one (1) year.
Scope of the service includes:
- Maintenance & Security updates for all networking equipment
- Hardware maintenance for all IT equipment located within the IT Halls and at frontline sites
- Manufacturer warranty management for all commodity equipment, such as desktops and laptops.
CPV: Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Sept 2024, 11:04 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Sept 2024, 11:04 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-029348- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-049a9bFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The primary driver behind the urgency to put the support service in place is the imminent expiry date of the current contract, unforeseen delay in dependent projects and the premature departure of key technical resources within Met Office that has left the business area with insufficient resource to undertake a planned re-tender (with approved Business Case).
There is now an immediate and urgent need to put in place an interim arrangement for a period of one year to ensure continuity of the critical support service and to enable a re-scoping of the support service which will be revised due to additional and on-going projects within the Home Office associated with the core network.
If Met Office is unable to proceed this opportunity will be lost and the organisation would lose key support for the existing CISCO equipment as this allows for support and security updates. The SSM service also covers Dell and other supplier hardware primarily in the Met Office IT Halls and the outstations. It is important this stays in place as server failures would impact operational services and the Digital Workplace.
The Met Office intends to re-tender the SSM service within the next year and has a fully costed and approved Business Case for this procurement activity.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computacenter (UK) Ltd | £300,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 029348-2024-1 · Computacenter (UK) Ltd
- Signed
- 13 Sept 2024
- Value
- £300,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- ComputacenterAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.