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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

The British Library

001256 Sitecore Development Services

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£600,000
Awarded18 Mar 2019
Published14 Feb 2019
RegionUK-wide

£600,000 — stated in the notice.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£600ktotal 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 Library's contract with its current Sitecore partner expires in 2018.

This procurement aims to appoint an implementation partner for the 12 months The successful supplier will have: - a sizeable complement of Certified Sitecore Developers - flexibility to scale the level of Sitecore development - developer availability to participate (eg via Skype) in daily development meetings - implemented Sitecore for multiple clients over the last 3 years using version 7 or 8 of the CMS - significant experience of delivering complex implementations of the CMS involving eg: rich content; multilingual capability; use of Lucene or Solr to deliver faceted browsing; Sitecore modules such as EXM, DMS, Web Forms for Marketers, XBlog, etc; integrating Sitecore with ecommerce, authentication, registration, and/or Customer Relationship Management systems; integrating Sitecore with APIs from box office, press contact, and/or post code lookup systems, etc; optimising the Sitecore solution and delivery infrastructure to remain performant and resilient during significant spikes in user demand; and ensuring Sitecore operates well with advanced web server technologies and associated firewall, reverse proxy, and caching strategies; - a broad range of development skills - significant experience in working collaboratively - extensive experience of technologies, including NGINX, Solr, uCommerce, TFS, GIT, TDS, Glass, Octopus, Web Forms, and MVC; - Partner classification with Sitecore, preferably at the Gold or Platinum level We expect demand for Sitecore development services to be about 500 days per annum.

The contract will contain no contractual commitment on the British Library for provision of any particular quantity.

The British Library intends this contract to be non-exclusive with ad-hoc call-off support being provided by the successful tenderer to flexibly deliver as and when required

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Significant experience in working collaboratively

significant experience in working collaboratively.

02

Extensive experience of technologies, including NGINX, Solr

extensive experience of technologies, including NGINX, Solr, uCommerce, TFS, GIT, TDS, Glass, Octopus, Web Forms, and MVC;.

03

The British Library intends this contract

The British Library intends this contract to be non-exclusive with ad-hoc call-off support being provided by the successful tenderer to flexibly deliver as and when required.

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Umbraco / Sitecore / Adobe AEM partner statusPlatform & vendor partner status
The Library's contract with its current Sitecore partner expires in 2018.

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193053ce-a41c-4f86-89ef-6ed20eec8481
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