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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

The Contract has already been awarded and this notice is being published to meet Transparency obligations only. Support & Maintenance of the Mercator Cartographic Production System (MCPS)

IT ServicesCPV 72267000
Value£219k
Awarded30 Mar 2017
Published22 May 2017
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£219ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the IT Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Support & Maintenance of the Mercator Cartographic Production System (MCPS).

This contract was awarded under the Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(iii) of Directive 2014/24/EU (Regulation 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015).

This is for reasons connected with the protection of exclusive design rights; Mercator is a proprietary product owned wholly by 1Spatial Group Limited and such services cannot be provided without access to that information.

The Contract has already been awarded and this notice is being published to meet Transparency obligations only.

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Support & Maintenance of the Mercator Cartographic

Support & Maintenance of the Mercator Cartographic Production System (MCPS).

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Stage
contract · Contract
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