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MCA - Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) IT Managed Service

IT ServicesCPV 72000000 72200000 72250000 72253000
Value£705k
Awarded7 Mar 2024
Published26 Apr 2024
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£705ktotal 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 MCA had a requirement for a contract to provide an IT managed service to the newly developed SMarT application to ensure that the services are secure and functional and maintained.

A 2-year contract has been let for the provision of an IT Managed Service including support and maintenance, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Service Requests for the SMarT portal.

Two 12-month optional extensions have been included in the contract.

Provision for continual improvement packages to be costed and agreed on a case-by-case basis.

An allowance of £200k has been allowed within the contract, in addition to the 2-year fixed price.

This opportunity was open to all suppliers under Lot 3d of the Crown Commercial Service's Technology Services 3 framework (RM6100).

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The MCA had a requirement for

The MCA had a requirement for a contract to provide an IT managed service to the newly developed SMarT application to ensure that the services are secure and functional and maintained.

02

A 2-year contract has been let

A 2-year contract has been let for the provision of an IT Managed Service including support and maintenance, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Service Requests for the SMarT portal.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This opportunity was open to all suppliers under Lot 3d of the Crown Commercial Service's Technology Services 3 framework (RM6100).

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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