Provision of Electronic Supply Area (ESA) and Asset-Tracking Cloud Based Software

Concepts

• packaged software products
• andover
• asset and item tracking
• asset-tracking cloud based software
• electronic supply area
• esa
• a cloud-hosted platform
• cloud
• based
• electronic

Location

Andover

Description

• Implementation of a cloud-hosted platform for asset and item tracking. • Production of a report to support critical work to the development of robust, informed User Requirements to support Army requirements

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 72210000 - Programming services of packaged software products

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

It is considered that this contract can be placed with Smarter Technologies Trading Limited pursuant to Regulation 7(1)(l) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations, justified by the following: i. This is a contract for services which fall within the DSPCR Regulation 3 definition of Research and Development: ‘all activities comprising fundamental research, applied research and experimental development’. Specifically, it constitutes experimental development, defined by DSPCR Regulation 3 as ‘work based on existing knowledge obtained from research or practical experience with a view to initiating the manufacture of new materials, products or devices, establishing new processes, systems and services or considerably improving those that already exist and includes the realisation of technological demonstrators’. ii. The MOD will fully fund this Research and Development activity. The ownership of the Intellectual Property Rights in the results will remain with the contractor, and under DEFCON 705, the MOD will acquire user rights of the Research and Development activity.