Scope
Description
The objective of this tender exercise is to source a partner to work with us to resolve our contention on test and development environments, which is holding up project pace. We envisage a partner will deliver three things:
An Enterprise Release Management (ERM) solution for Midland Heart (MH), providing the framework and processes that will enable Midland Heart to build, maintain and control environmental management, recommending and sourcing the tooling and leading the culture change and process change to deliver environments at pace.
Recommending and sourcing a replacement of our legacy on-premises "point-to-point" API architecture that constrains the availability of integrated environments used for SIT and UAT with a new cloud-based hub and spoke model to support the vision of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Development) practices. This will enable the automation, orchestration and controlled release of multiple integrated environments according to business need, using techniques such as API stubbing and mocking.
The successful partner will work with our Northgate Housing supplier (NEC) to additionally migrate from On Premises to a virtualized hosted (OCI) solution in order to fully meet our environment flexibility requirements., as well as with suppliers (commercial and internal) of products that Northgate integrates to.
Midland Heart intends to award a contract for a partner to conduct an analysis of our current APIs, and following successful delivery of this initial engagement, to source ERM tools, implement a POC and deliver a production environment with APIs (and non-API integrations where feasible) onboarded.
Suppliers who wish to recommend alternative solutions to delivering our environment flexibility requirement are encouraged to suggest them in the dialogue process.
Contract 1
Supplier
Contract value
- £447,820 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Award decision date
28 November 2025
Date assessment summaries were sent to tenderers
28 November 2025
Standstill period
- End: 10 December 2025
- 8 working days
Earliest date the contract will be signed
11 December 2025
Contract dates (estimated)
- 12 December 2025 to 11 December 2026
- Possible extension to 11 December 2027
- 2 years
Description of possible extension:
1 years maximum
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Information about tenders
- 4 tenders received
- 4 tenders assessed in the final stage:
- 0 submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- 0 submitted by voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
- 1 supplier awarded contracts
- 3 suppliers unsuccessful (details included for contracts over £5 million)
Submission
Submission type
Tenders
Procedure
Procedure type
Competitive flexible procedure
Supplier
TXP Solutions Ltd
- Companies House: 02333415
Suite 103-105 Fort Dunlop Fort Parkway
Birmingham
B24 9FD
United Kingdom
Email: ben.harvey@jumar.co.uk
Region: UKG31 - Birmingham
Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No
Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No
Supported employment provider: No
Public service mutual: No
Contract 1
Contracting authority
Midland Heart
- Companies House: IP30069R
20 Bath Row
Birmingham
B15 1LZ
United Kingdom
Contact name: Alex Lawrence - Midland Heart
Telephone: 01216229143
Email: alex.lawrence@midlandheart.org.uk
Website: http://www.midlandheart.org.uk
Region: UKG31 - Birmingham
Organisation type: Public undertaking (commercial organisation subject to public authority oversight)