Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Dudley MBC · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Arvato Limited
- Value
- £33,039
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software-related services (CPV 72260000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 000418-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2024
- Published7 Jan 2025Published 98 days after the contract date
Description
Dudley MBC have recently completed a successful pilot of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software using the Blue Prism product and are now running live workloads using a single licence. This licence is due to expire on 24th October 2024. This licence, and the associated development environment, are hosted on-premises on our own virtual machines. We expect to require additional licences for Blue Prism in the future, so that we can scale our environment as our workloads grow. In addition, we recognise that as we expand our use of Blue Prism, we may require expert advice and support from experienced consultants and developers. Lot1: 1.1 Provision of one Blue Prism licence to commence October 24th 2024 for a period of three years. 1.2 An optional additional two Blue Prism licences, to be called off when decided by Dudley MBC (this may be at the start of the contract or a later date), and to co-terminate with the single licence referred to in lot 1.1 above. 1.3 Note that additional licenc…
About the supplier
Arvato Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03923307).