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Symphony Housing Group

Cobalt - ICT services 2017-21

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Value£5.4m
Deadline4 Jul 2016
Published6 Jun 2016
RegionNorth West
Timeline
Published 6 Jun 2016ClosedCloses 4 Jul 2016
Contract value in context
£5.4mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£5.8m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Cobalt Housing requires certain hardware and elements of software to be provided, installed and supported to enable it to deliver a range of social housing activities to its customers.

This includes both communications, ICT equipment and software.

Cobalt is currently part of Symphony Housing Group but expects to leave the Group in April 2017.

The Group has provided the majority of aspects of Cobalt's IT and communications hardware, software and support, as further described in the Draft Specification document available to download through the URL indicated in this notice.

These aspects include housing management, finance, facilities, asset management, electronic document management, e-procurement and mobile working.

Cobalt is looking to procure hardware, software, support and maintenance to enable it to operate as a housing provider independent from Symphony Housing Group.

Duration in months: 48 (April 2017-March 2021) This contract is subject to renewal.

The contract is likely to be for a 4 year term with the option for Cobalt to renew the contract 3 further times for periods of up to 2 years (i.e. up to 10 years if all options to extend are used).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Cobalt Housing requires certain hardware and elements

Cobalt Housing requires certain hardware and elements of software to be provided, installed and supported to enable it to deliver a range of social housing activities to its customers.

02

The Group has provided the majority

The Group has provided the majority of aspects of Cobalt's IT and communications hardware, software and support, as further described in the Draft Specification document available to download through the URL indicated in this notice.

03

Cobalt is looking to procure hardware, software

Cobalt is looking to procure hardware, software, support and maintenance to enable it to operate as a housing provider independent from Symphony Housing Group.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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