RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

FORESTRY COMMISSION

GIS Solutions and Services

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£3.3m
Awarded6 Nov 2023
Published12 Jul 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£3.3mtotal 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

Provision of an externally hosted systems solution delivered to web browsers, with remote access to hosting servers for data management purposes. 'Forester' GIS is an integrated platform for land management, and used by all public forestry bodies in GB.

Forester provides the single spatial solution for multi-functional and dispersed teams to manage and collaborate on inventory and management data.

The contract covers 1.

Continuation of our Business-as-Usual operation (including hosted infrastructure to run Forester as a Managed Service, Application support and maintenance, development services to provide extensions to existing functionality and integrations to 3rd party applications) 2.

Discovery and Design of the future roadmap for Forester (review of the current design and deployment pattern for Forester against modern patterns, possibly involving a major re-write of application code and movement to new development frameworks) 3.

Phased implementation of the Roadmap and transition of service arrangements.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Provision of an externally hosted systems solution

Provision of an externally hosted systems solution delivered to web browsers, with remote access to hosting servers for data management purposes. 'Forester' GIS is an integrated platform for land management, and used by all public forestry bodies in GB.

02

Continuation of our Business-as-Usual operation (including hosted

Continuation of our Business-as-Usual operation (including hosted infrastructure to run Forester as a Managed Service, Application support and maintenance, development services to provide extensions to existing functionality and integrations to 3rd party applications).

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Source & provenance
OCID
637a9c55-f4ef-41c7-9641-fdd733b03171
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CR2023/24/063
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