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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

South Cambridgeshire District Council

HOSTED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£187k
Awarded30 Nov 2015
Published23 Oct 2015
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£187ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Cambridge City Council (CCC), South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) and Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) are working together in a number of areas to share both front line and back office services.

The Councils have identified the need to use a common Financial Management System (FMS) to enable sharing and to maximise cashable and non-cashable benefits.

It has therefore been decided to replace all 3 Councils current financial systems with a modern and flexible system common across the 3 Councils.

The system selected and implemented will be externally hosted.

It will enable and support the Councils’ transformation through the provision of self-service functionality and intuitive enquiry and reporting capabilities.

As such, it will be a key driver of change.

The project will be split into two phases: PHASE 1 – Supply, configuration, implementation, testing and ‘go live’/ handover to the Councils of the fully functioning system.

The ‘go live’/ handover dates for each Council may be different.

PHASE 2 (effective from the ‘Go Live’ date) – Ongoing hosting, support and maintenance of the system.

This Invitation to tender (ITT) is for all 3 Councils who are collaborating together on this procurement project with Cambridge City Council acting as procurement lead authority.

Once the preferred tenderer is selected the Councils will award one contract (jointly signed by the 3 councils) to the successful contractor.

This invitation to tender thus represents a lucrative opportunity for bidders and the Councils are looking for commercially attractive solutions that reflect the nature of this opportunity.

The support and maintenance period (phase 2) will run for five years from the ‘go live’ date of the final Council system going live.

Please note that the contract start and end date are estimated and cannot be relied upon.

Bidders proposals will help to form the basis of a realistic contract start and end date.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Councils have identified the need

The Councils have identified the need to use a common Financial Management System (FMS) to enable sharing and to maximise cashable and non-cashable benefits.

02

It will enable and support the Councils’

It will enable and support the Councils’ transformation through the provision of self-service functionality and intuitive enquiry and reporting capabilities.

03

Supply, configuration, implementation, testing and ‘go live’/

Supply, configuration, implementation, testing and ‘go live’/ handover to the Councils of the fully functioning system.

04

Ongoing hosting, support and maintenance of

Ongoing hosting, support and maintenance of the system.

05

The support and maintenance period (phase 2)

The support and maintenance period (phase 2) will run for five years from the ‘go live’ date of the final Council system going live.

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Stage
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