Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- GSS (NI) Limited ("PlotBox") SME
- Value
- £337,035
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Database software package (CPV 48611000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 027661-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 May 2025
- Published27 May 2025Published the same day
Description
This contract was procured via an Open FTS procedure. The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium is a major burial and cremation facility for Northeast London and part of Southwest Essex and is visited by around 250,000 people annually. Each year the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium carries out around 900 earth burials and 2600 cremations a year. The current burial and cremation administration system is used to record and manage burials and cremations. It has outlived its effectiveness due to the limited updates to the system. Hosted on the City of London network, this system frequently experiences crashes, lacks integration with other cemetery systems, and is outdated. Consequently, it fails to meet user requirements. The Cemetery also still relies on hand-drawn maps dating back to when the cemetery was first opened in 1856. The Cemetery requires an end-to-end admin management system that is fully integrated with GIS mapping. This system should serve as the single source…
About the supplier
GSS (NI) Limited ("PlotBox"): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company NI606324).