Flood Modeller licenses renewal

Concepts

• information technology
• flood modeller licenses renewal
• flood modeller software licenses
• flood modeller
• its flood forecasting models
• the environment agency’s primary flood forecasting system
• flood modeller (fm) software
• models
• renewal
• licenses

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

The Incident Management Forecasting System (IMFS) is the Environment Agency’s primary flood forecasting system and uses Jacobs owned Flood Modeller (FM) software as a platform to run its flood forecasting models.The purpose of this VEAT notice is to announce the Environment Agency's intention to enter into a 5 year contract, starting 1st January 2025, with Jacobs for supply of Flood Modeller software licenses. The Environment Agency will now enter a standstill period, starting on Monday 18th November 2024 for a period of 10 days, ending Thursday 28th November 2024 at midnight.

Total Quantity or Scope

Please refer to II.1.4.1.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

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

Legal Justification

Jacobs are the sole owners and licensor of FM and there are no alternatives available to us without rewriting all forecasting models. It is the view of the Environment Agency that this contract is justifiable under Regulations 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 to award the contract for the supply and support of the FM software because, as Jacobs own the intellectual property for the software, and develop and support the specialist FM software, therefore no reasonable alternative exists, nor can another organisation supply and support the product. At this time, no alternative solution is available because any decision to deviate from FM would require a redevelopment of all Environment Agency models, which would take many years to develop and at great cost, therefore competition is absent for technical reasons.

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