Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Forestry England
620 Coldharbour Lane, Winterbourne
Bristol
BS16 1EJ
arran.price@forestryengland.uk
Telephone
+44 3000674000
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKK11 - Bristol, City of
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.forestryengland.uk/
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
one.5) Main activity
Other activity
Forestry
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Provision of Timber Sales System
Reference number
FEE/0856
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 48480000 - Sales, marketing and business intelligence software package
two.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
two.1.4) Short description
Forestry England is looking to procure a web based closed bid tender Sales system, which must be fully integrated with Forestry England’s eTimber database to allow for data transfer between both systems.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £900,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: Yes
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: 3
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots:
Lot 1 – Provision of timber sales system
Lot 2 – Hosting, maintenance and development of eTimber, WMS and LMS systems
Lot 3 - eTendering system
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Provision of tender sales system
Lot No
1
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 48480000 - Sales, marketing and business intelligence software package
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKK11 - Bristol, City of
Main site or place of performance
Bristol, City of
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Forestry England is looking to procure a web based closed bid tender Sales system, which must be fully integrated with Forestry England’s eTimber database to allow for data transfer between both systems.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Hosting, maintenance and development of eTimber, WMS and LMS systems
Lot No
2
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 72267100 - Maintenance of information technology software
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKK11 - Bristol, City of
Main site or place of performance
Bristol, City of
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The technical requirements we will expect from any potential supplier for Lot 2 are as follows:
- Application Management Service, including the hosting, support, maintenance and continual enhancement of Forestry England's eTimber, Larder Management System (LMS) and Wildlife Management System (WMS) applications.
- Hosting of all applications is currently provided using AWS cloud infrastructure services, with connections to Forestry England and third party environments facilitating SFTP and web services data exchange interfaces to key systems.
- Knowledge of AWS infrastructure, networking, security and RDS database services is essential.
- Application technologies in scope include RHEL, Oracle Database, Oracle APEX, Business Objects, Apache Tomcat, Angular, Spring and Jasper Reports.
- Support the existing DevOps delivery approach and maintenance of the automated CI/CD pipeline is also required.
- On-going development and enhancement of the applications
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
eTendering System
Lot No
3
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 48490000 - Procurement software package
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKK11 - Bristol, City of
Main site or place of performance
Bristol, City of
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Forestry England may also consider incorporating the future provision of it’s eTendering system into this contract (possibly as a separate Lot).
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
1 September 2021
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
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GO Reference: GO-2021430-PRO-18177500