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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

The British Library

001006 IT Technology Services Arrangement

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£1.5m
Awarded11 Jun 2018
Published11 May 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The purpose of this Procurement is to establish a non-exclusive ad-hoc 'call-off' arrangement with a single organisation who can demonstrate the capability and capacity to deliver services providing the optimal mix of quality and cost across all aspects of technology within the current landscape.

This arrangement contains no contractual commitment on any party for the provision of any particular quantity nor does this arrangement involve any commitment to purchase but serves to commonly specify the levels of quality required and the terms and conditions of contract that will apply when specific work-packages are called-off by the British Library.

The Technology partner will need to support the existing BL environment, processes and technologies and be able to augment the existing teams providing the flexibility to increase or decrease their contributions to the teams, delivering resources, skills and experience in the following areas: A.

Application Development B.

Personal Computing Services C.

Infrastructure D.

Technical Project Delivery E.

Web Development F.

Architecture G.

Service Assurance H.

Application Support

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The purpose of this Procurement is

The purpose of this Procurement is to establish a non-exclusive ad-hoc 'call-off' arrangement with a single organisation who can demonstrate the capability and capacity to deliver services providing the optimal mix of quality and cost across all aspects of technology within the current landscape.

02

The Technology partner will need to support

The Technology partner will need to support the existing BL environment, processes and technologies and be able to augment the existing teams providing the flexibility to increase or decrease their contributions to the teams, delivering resources, skills and experience in the following areas:.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
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