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Defra Group Commercial

Reservoir Act Compliance Enforcement (RACE) Application [RACE2 Re-Procurement]

IT ServicesCPV 72512000
Value£3.5m
Deadline
Published25 Jul 2024
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Leigh Board - DgC
leigh.board@defra.gov.uk
03708506506

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.5mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.8m

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The brief

The Reservoir Act Compliance Enforcement (RACE) application is a business-critical system used by the National Reservoir Safety Team to support the compliance and enforcement activities mandated under the Reservoirs Safety Act (1975) and the Flood and Water Management Act (2010).

Currently there are approximately ten users in the National Reservoir Safety Team across England who are responsible for managing the relationship with engineers and reservoir owners, ensuring compliance and where appropriate undertaking enforcement action.

The Environment Agency are looking to select a new, single vendor that can offer cloud hosting of the existing, OpenText Documentum-based RACE platform as well as provide support and maintenance services plus additional professional services as and when needed to support future change projects.

The current version of Documentum is hosted on-premise and is being upgraded to a cloud ready version.

Documentum as a platform will be required for the next few years to allow the project team to focus on design of the new ‘front end’ Client Services, with re-platforming to be considered as a follow on exercise.

The Government commissioned the Balmforth review into the incident at Toddbrook reservoir in 2019.

This has made a number of recommendations which will change the way the Reservoir Safety team works.

The software the team uses will need to be updated in order to support the potential new ways of working.

Data records and documentation stored within the system are marked OFFICIAL and a handling caveat of SENSITIVE for a small subset of information marked OFFICIAL that requires special handling by staff (such as Reservoir Risk Flood Maps).

A pre-market engagement presentation will be conducted on Wednesday 24th July at 3-4pm via Teams: Microsoft Teams Need help?

Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 372 726 856 676 Passcode: y8Bg5x ________________________________________ Dial in by phone +44 20 3321 5273,,317263059# United Kingdom, London Find a local number Phone conference ID: 317 263 059# Join on a video conferencing device Tenant key: teams@defra.onpexip.com Video ID: 127 119 484 8 More info This session will be recorded.

Any questions can be submitted during the recording and directly to DgC, these will then be collated , answered and circulated to all.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Reservoir Act Compliance Enforcement (RACE) application

The Reservoir Act Compliance Enforcement (RACE) application is a business-critical system used by the National Reservoir Safety Team to support the compliance and enforcement activities mandated under the Reservoirs Safety Act (1975) and the Flood and Water Management Act (2010).

02

Currently there are approximately ten users in

Currently there are approximately ten users in the National Reservoir Safety Team across England who are responsible for managing the relationship with engineers and reservoir owners, ensuring compliance and where appropriate undertaking enforcement action.

03

The Environment Agency are looking to select

The Environment Agency are looking to select a new, single vendor that can offer cloud hosting of the existing, OpenText Documentum-based RACE platform as well as provide support and maintenance services plus additional professional services as and when needed to support future change projects.

04

The software the team uses will need

The software the team uses will need to be updated in order to support the potential new ways of working.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0484a6
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
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Buyer ref
023242-2024
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