Technology Support Services Framework

A Tender Notice
by BANK OF ENGLAND

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Framework (Services)
Duration
4 year
Value
£-£60M
Sector
TECHNOLOGY
Published
24 Jul 2023
Delivery
To 10 Aug 2027 (est.)
Deadline
31 Aug 2023 11:00

Concepts

Location

London:

Geochart for 1 buyers and 0 suppliers

1 buyer

Description

The Bank of England is looking to conduct an open tender procedure in 2023 for a Technology Support Services Framework. Many of the Bank's critical functions and processes rely upon the Technology infrastructure and systems the Bank has in place. The maintenance, development and continuous innovation of these systems is critical for the Bank's future operations. Alongside the Bank's technology staff, utilising industry experts as necessary.

Lot Division

1 SAP

The Bank is seeking suppliers that retain high levels of skills in SAP, in particular Business Warehouse. The Bank retains a highly configured estate with complex and high value logistics.
2 Cloud

The Bank is seeking suppliers that can deliver services covering multi cloud environments and the interoperability between them and to on premise and shared data centres. Suppliers would also need to have an understanding about consumption models, reserved instances, cloud license management and FinOps. The Bank has a variety of data centres and cloud service providers and will seek to review this over time. It is keen to improve consumption based spend and reporting and to be able to make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads.
3 Enterprise

The Bank is seeking suppliers that are experienced in managing Enterprise Systems, including ERP solutions, M365 and D365. The Bank will be seeking to understand where the supply chain can take a more outcome-based approach to service provision.
4 Data

The Bank is seeking suppliers that have strong and established development and engineering experience in the Data space in addition to Data science, architecture, strategy, and engineering capabilities.
5 Networks

The Bank is seeking suppliers that can provide telecoms (internal and external) skills, first as an augmentation model but may also look to identify and source small parts of the whole scope by the end of the contract. Suppliers that can provide capability in supporting network and infrastructure appliances and that can consult and advise on evolution of telecoms and networking, so the Bank can look to leverage future technologies to deliver its services over multiple sites.
6 Infrastructure

The Bank is seeking suppliers that can demonstrate capability managing database services and can provide TCO models as well as new approaches to Technical Debt. Suppliers that can demonstrate capability managing Server Operating Systems. Suppliers that can demonstrate capability managing Storage and Virtualisation Systems.
7 Architecture and Consultancy

The Bank is seeking suppliers that have a strong track record in providing Business and Enterprise Architecture in relation to Technology and business strategy.
8 Service Integrators

The Bank is seeking suppliers that are comfortable operating Large Change, transformation or managed services solutions across the Technology stack.
9 Recruit Train Deploy

The Bank is seeking suppliers that can provide Recruit, Train and Deploy services.

CPV Codes

  • 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems

Indicators

  • This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
  • Renewals are not available.

Other Information

The Bank wishes to set up a multi-Lot, multi-supplier framework agreement with successful Bidders for the provision of services to support the various functions of the Bank's Technology Directorate. The Bank anticipates that the successfully appointed suppliers will provide both resource augmentation and project delivery services on-site at the Bank's various premises as well as off-site where appropriate and agreed by the Bank. The framework will be in place for four years and is a series of zero-commit Agreements with Technology suppliers. Requirements will be called off over the Term and as such the contract value represents a maximum spend over this period, on this Framework. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **

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