R5963 Corporate Finance System

Concepts

• packaged software products
• r5963 corporate finance system
• its finances
• system
• finance
• corporate
• finances
• programming services
• management
• budget allocation

Location

London

Description

The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets intend to enter into a contract with Unit4 in respect of the services described below. The proposed contract is term 3 years. The Agresso (Business World Enterprise Resource Planning) application is the system used by the entire council for the management of its finances. The application is essential IT infrastructure as it provides accounting functionality which enables budget allocation and management across the whole council.

Total Quantity or Scope

The firm also provides support and maintenance under this contract. In addition Agresso will also be hosted by Unit 4.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 72210000 - Programming services of packaged software products

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

This award is lawful in accordance with the regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) because the competition is absent for technical reasons. The council has used the Agresso application for a number of years, and the system is an essential part of the council's IT infrastructure such that any down time or system failure would have a detrimental affect on the running of the council's services. At the present time it would be impossible for the council to procure an alternative economic operator to provide this service. This is because, the council has embarked on a wider assessment of its infrastructural IT provision - with respect to Finance, HR and Procurement. Therefore it is key that stability of provision is ensured over the next few years to allow proper consideration of the above mentioned aspects. No other economic provider would be able to provide this service at this time. The application is currently hosted by an external third party; this arrangement is drawing to a conclusion. It will not be possible for the application and the data to be hosted by a third party in the future due to the availability of support for third party hosting