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
- Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Applications DBA Ltd SME
- Value
- £292,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · System and support services (CPV 72250000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 054743-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Sep 2025
- Published8 Sep 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) Notice. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) will be entering into a contract with Applications DBA Ltd to supply Oracle Database Administrator Services for its business-critical Database Environment; for the planning, design and migration of our Oracle database systems to support the remaining transition of COPFS’ datacentres to offsite locations; the planning, design and development of our next generation Case Management System; and establishment of enhanced IT and business resiliency systems. This requires in-depth knowledge of COPFS current environment and infrastructure as well as extensive experience and up to date qualifications and skills in Oracle DBA to be able to provide knowledge transfer, support the transition of new team members and produce detailed systems documentation for COPFS case management systems, activities requiring bespoke and detailed technical understanding of COPFS FOS, PROMIS and other case…
About the supplier
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