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Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Hosted Electronic Solution for the Administration of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48900000 79600000
Value£2.0m
Awarded2 Sept 2018
Published26 Feb 2019
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£2.0mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£2.2m

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.

The brief

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) on behalf of members and associate members of Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) quotations for the provision of a hosted electronic solution for the administration of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

The current members of GMCA are: Bolton Council, Bury Council, Manchester City Council, Oldham Borough Council, Rochdale Council, Salford City Council, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Tameside Council, Trafford Council and Wigan Council.

Other partners are:- Other major partners The other major partners with a place on our leadership team are: • Greater Manchester Police (Greater Manchester Police website) • Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service website) • Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership (Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership website) • the NHS (NHS Choices website) • Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) • The Growth Company Other AGMA authorities who may use this service are: Blackburn with Darwen Council, Blackpool Council, Cheshire East and Warrington Borough Council GMCA membership may change over the life of the Agreement, and hence either expand or contract the list of contracting bodies eligible to use this Agreement.

Should any changes occur, then the details of such changes will be made available to interested parties.

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Should any changes occur, then the details

Should any changes occur, then the details of such changes will be made available to interested parties.

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DBS checkPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Hosted Electronic Solution for the Administration of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks

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