Rural Payments Service and associated support services and integration

Concepts

• information technology
• associated support services
• rural payments service
• integration
• provision of rural payments service
• integration provision
• rural
• payments
• and

Location

London

Description

Rural Payments Service and associated support services and integration

Total Quantity or Scope

Provision of Rural Payments Service and associated support services and integration

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

The incumbent supplier holds sole access rights to the IP, as they built, designed, maintain, operate and support the Rural Payments Service platform. However, we are looking to reduce this dependency by moving the service to the cloud in the next financial year, and thereby reducing the sole management splitting it to Defra and a supplier (yet to be agreed as it is subject to a competitive tender process to take effect from July 2024.) Therefore, it is believed that situations 3, and 4, of the five permissible situations set out in the STA Guidance were met. KITS is the only supplier with the expertise and/or equipment to complete the task (Sole Supplier) due to their knowledge of the platform they built and they hold sole access rights to intellectual or property rights (Property Rights) as they designed, built, maintain, operate and support the Rural Payments Service platform. This is in accordance with Reg 32(2)(iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property right.