Official UK procurement notice
Support & Maintenance of NIFRS ICCS
Authority: Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupport & Maintenance of NIFRS ICCS for the period 01/04/2023-31/03/2025
CPV: Technical computer support services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
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
- 28 Feb 2023, 14:39 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Apr 2023, 10:07 BST
- Authority reference
3496/280- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-010592- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03ace7Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
As per Reg 32.2(b)(iii) - Telent has exclusive rights to support and maintain the ICCS system currently used by NIFRS, as this supplier holds the intellectual property rights and source code and therefore is the only supplier that can provide this service.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophtlogic LTDSMEProvision of Support and Maintenance of the NIFRS Pharos Management Information System (MIS) and WAND system | £914,000 †same award published again · counted once | — | Awarded |
| Sophtlogic LTDSMEProvision of Support and Maintenance of the NIFRS Pharos Management Information System (MIS) and WAND system | £914,000 † | — | Awarded |
| Telent Technology Services Limited | £249,277 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Support & Maintenance of NIFRS ICCS · Telent Technology Services Limited
- Signed
- 7 Apr 2023
- Value
- £249,277
- Status
- active
Provision of Support and Maintenance of the NIFRS Pharos Management Information System (MIS) and WAND system · Sophtlogic LTDSME
- Signed
- 27 Mar 2023
- Value
- £914,000
- Status
- active
Provision of Support and Maintenance of the NIFRS Pharos Management Information System (MIS) and WAND system · Sophtlogic LTDSME
- Signed
- 28 Feb 2023
- Value
- £914,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NIFRSReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- Sophtlogic LtdAwarded supplier
- TelentAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.