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# Supply of licences to access a curated IT research database

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-of-licences-to-access-a-curated-it-research-database-ocds-h6vhtk-04bdea). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial: "Supply of licences to access a curated IT research database". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: CHF 1,500,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/desnz-dsit-group-commercial-GB-FTS-114034)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** CHF 1,500,000 (CHF)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Data management services, Data services, Data-processing services, Database services, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (+1 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04bdea`

## 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/supply-of-licences-to-access-a-curated-it-research-database-ocds-h6vhtk-04bdea#tl-md)

## Description
Description of the Procurement:  	The Supply shall include the following technical deliverables and activities:
Access to a database/web portal managed by the Contractor and that provides access to the following
listed types of content.
• Research, in the forms of articles, graphics, presentations about current IT trends
o General IT trends with a focus on IT management (CIO) related topics
o Information and comparisons about Enterprise Applications incl. the qualification of
solutions by their maturity, vision completeness and ability to execute on their
objectives.
o Information/research about specific IT trends and the related lifecycle and information
and research about the maturity of a given technology.
o Information/research about organisational IT topics (e.g. ways of working, building
effective teams, measuring productivity).
• Vendor-independent (fully neutral and without any other self-interest than presenting/selling
the information) evaluations of solutions for different purposes in the Enterprise Application
space (some non-exhaustive examples are HR Information Systems, CRM systems, ERP systems, Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Modelling solutions, Artificial
Intelligence chat systems and coding assistants etc.).
• Provide online tools that allow preparing for procurement of IT services and Enterprise
Applications. These tools include access to vendor/tool/services comparisons, provide access
to domain specific technical and functional evaluation criteria and questions.
In addition to the access to documentation about IT trends, market evaluations as well as solution
comparisons/evaluations, the licences shall provide access to:
• Webinars about topics in line with the available research as outlined above.
• Direct (online) face to face meetings on any IT domain topic covered by the platform to
exchange with subject matter experts and to guide further research.
• Tailored feedback, comments and advice from the Contractor’s subject matter experts on
documents prepared internally by CERN on IT domain topics.
The Contractor shall actively curate the content provided via its web portal and keep the research information about IT trends, tool/solution vendors regularly updated. For instance, tool/vendor comparisons for common Enterprise Applications (such as CRM, ERP, HRIS and similar systems) shall be updated on at least a yearly basis. All services are meant to be delivered remotely, i.e. via the access to an Internet based web portal as well as online meetings.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 72220000, 72300000, 72310000, 72320000, 72322000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Description of the Procurement:  	The Supply shall include the following technical deliverables and activities:
Access to a database/web portal managed by the Contractor and that provides access to the following
listed types of content.
• Research, i...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F037784-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-11-22T11:09:36.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T07:57:10.814Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04bdea