Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Office for National Statistics
Government Buildings,Cardiff Road
NEWPORT
NP108XG
Contact
Jack Pooley
Telephone
+44 3000671500
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKL21 - Monmouthshire and Newport
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other type
Non departmental government body
one.5) Main activity
General public services
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Office for National Statistics - Managed Service for Ingres and OpenRoad Support
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 72250000 - System and support services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Office for National Statistics is the UK Governments recognised statistical institute, responsible for producing indicative statistics relating to UK economy, population, and society.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £3,696,980
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
Main site or place of performance
Newport
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The primary purpose of the contract is the delivery of a managed service by the supplier using a multi-disciplinary team to provide a service to maintain the ONS Ingres and OpenRoad systems whilst work is carried out to migrate surveys off them and onto more up-to-date platforms.
The current contract is governed by the Crown Commercial Services RM1043.7; Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 (DOS 5) Lot1 - Digital Outcomes.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion - Name: Technical & Cultural Fit / Weighting: 80%
Price - Weighting: 20%
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
ONS may extend the contract by up to 24 months.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations
Explanation:
To preserve the continuity of knowledge and expertise built over the preceding four and a half years that will provide resilient and consistent support for the critical outputs produced by the organisation using the OpenROAD and Ingress applications.
OpenROAD is a database-centric, object-oriented, 4GL rapid application development (RAD) tool that lets you develop and deploy business applications on Windows, Linux and Unix. Ingres is an open-source relational database management system (DBMS) designed for large-scale commercial and government applications.
The expertise in the market for the size of managed service support required is very limited. The previous open tender only elicited one suitable response and a market engagement exercise failed to generate any suitable leads. Similarly, a search of purchasing platforms available to the organisation failed to match on the requirements.
A strategic resourcing decision not to train and develop permanent resources on legacy technologies means that there is no internal capability to support these applications.
The support provided for processing of survey data that enables the regular processing of surveys operated by ONS is a fundamental enabler for our core strategic aim of "statistics for the public good" and cannot be compromised.
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
Section five. Award of contract/concession
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract/concession
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
14 May 2024
five.2.2) Information about tenders
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire
Diegesis Limited
Wimbledon/London
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
The contractor/concessionaire is an SME
No
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot/concession: £3,696,980
Total value of the contract/lot/concession: £3,696,980
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
High Court of England and Wales
London
Country
United Kingdom