Official UK procurement notice
Valuations Office Agency (VOA): Cloud Application Run Services
Authority: H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHMRC requires a managed service for a DevOps Engineering capacity and all Application Operations Engineering Core Technologies Microsoft Power Platform (incl. Dynamics 365), GeoSpatial (ArcGIS) and InRule including supporting Azure services as required by the application, to include staff training.
Key supplier responsibilities will be to:
- Transform technical requirements into DevOps processes
- Build complex stories without additional support
- Manage live test environments
- Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery
- Manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets
- Know about the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised
- Support specific activities to improve development processes
- Spot or identify obvious deficiencies
- Undertake Support and Maintenance in accordance with fixed KPIs / SLAs
- Undertake Incident Management
- Undertake Small Change / Enhancement Management
- Undertake Integration with Cloud Services at a Platform Level
- Undertake Core DevOps Management
- Upskill VOA Customer Group Staff
The desired outcome is for the Supplier/s to bring industry best practices and high performing individuals to work alongside our delivery and Live Service teams across various product teams and functions. We expect Suppliers to follow agile principles.
HMRC intends to procure this requirement via the Crown Commercial Service Framework Technology Services 3 (RM6100). Lot 3d: Operational Services - Application and Data Management will be used.
The overall value is estimated contract value is £7,000,000 (Excluding VAT).
The contract term proposed is an initial term of 3 years followed by two optional 1 year extensions.
CPV: Enterprise resource planning software development services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Information technology requirements review services · System quality assurance assessment and review services · System software acceptance testing consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The main purpose of this PIN is to facilitate early market engagement as follows:Planned
The main purpose of this PIN is to facilitate early market engagement as follows:
- Gauge feedback on HMRC's proposed approach.
- Understand the suitability of this contract for the services that would be proposed.
- An understanding of the commercial options available for procurement of these style of services.
- Stimulate market interest and gain insight into the key features of available services
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Jun 2022, 15:22 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Jun 2022, 15:22 BST
- Authority reference
SR1037480076- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-017915- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-034ca1Find a Tender
Publisher note: HMRC intends to compete these requirements into one ITT, under one Lot. Within this Lot we will seek an eco-system of suppliers, reflective of the technology specialisms (InRule, Geospatial & MS Power Platform).
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Jun 2022 → 22 Aug 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published30 Jun 2022, 15:22 BST
- Tender notice expected22 Aug 2022, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.