Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
National Highways
199 Wharfside Street
Birmingham
B1 1RN
UK
E-mail: pablo.delfino@nationalhighways.co.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://nationalhighways.co.uk/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
National or federal agency/office
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
IAM IS Support
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
National Highways has a requirement for the ongoing provision of AssetWise Linear Network Management configured to enable Structures, Network Event Manager and Network Manager, provided by Bentley Systems. The service utilizes a configured solution for National Highways based on Bentleys COTS solutions. The service areas and capabilities included in the on-going AssetWise service will be Hosting Services to provide the infrastructure of the systems and services, Management Service to provide availability, capacity and performance management, Security Management to provide the management of access control, information rights and security protocols, support Desk covering the AssetWise service including Incidents, Service requests and Change requests, and Licensing Service to provide appropriate licenses for the infrastructure.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
14 830 181.97
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
National Highways has a requirement for the ongoing provision of AssetWise Linear Network Management configured to enable Structures, Network Event Manager and Network Manager, provided by Bentley Systems. The service utilizes a configured solution for National Highways based on Bentleys COTS solutions. The service areas and capabilities included in the on-going AssetWise service will be Hosting Services to provide the infrastructure of the systems and services, Management Service to provide availability, capacity and performance management, Security Management to provide the management of access control, information rights and security protocols, support Desk covering the AssetWise service including Incidents, Service requests and Change requests, and Licensing Service to provide appropriate licenses for the infrastructure.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
Option to extend for a further period of 12 months period at the sole discretion of the contracting authority.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive
Explanation
National Highways is relying on Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to justify the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication for the following reasons:
The service utilizes a configured solution for NH’s based on the proposed service providers COTS solution AssetWise and has bespoke coding elements and design elements in the core software made specifically to meet NH’s specific requirements (e.g. utilization of NH’s network model, calculation of KPI 3 data, Roadwork Clash Analysis) that provide critical functionality.
Further, the Asset Management Systems landscape within National Highways uses several solutions for different asset classes like pavements, geotechnical, drainage, lighting and ancillaries, with which the IAM IS solution integrates and interoperates in a highly ad-hoc configured and complex data model that is embedded in business processes. The complexity of the dependency, interoperability and integration with numerous existing systems cannot be achieved due to these technical reasons before the current contract ends or within at least around 18 months.
The complexity and criticality of the requirement results in a minimum lead time of 18 months to be factored into an implementation plan for a replacement solution, with a considerable investment. A significant investment has been made to deploy the existing solution which still has several years before it reaches ‘end of life’ and to undertake a wholesale replacement of it at this juncture would therefore be a disproportionate and unreasonable cost in the circumstances.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2024/S 000-034668
Section V: Award of contract
Title: IAM IS Support
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
23/12/2024
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Bentley Systems (UK) LTD
London
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 14 830 181.97
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Department for Transport
DEPT 791 MANAGEMENT SERVICES CENTRE 58 CLARENDON ROAD
watford
WD17 1DE
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/01/2025