Provision of IBM SPSS Licences and Support

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

BlueLight Commercial Ltd (the "Authority") intends to enter into an agreement with IBM United Kingdom Limited (the "Supplier") for the provision of IBM SPSS licences and support for IBM SPSS Products. The Authority is entering into this contract as a national contracting body for UK Policing and wider public sector agencies who have expressed an interest in participating in a single contract ("User Organisations"). This software is used by the User Organisations for the development and presentation of complex statistical data analysis. User Organisation utilise the software for a variety of purposes such as predictive crime analysis, user research and statistical model production. The proposed contract is for a period of three years.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Authority intends to enter into an agreement with the Supplier for the provision of licences and support for IBM SPSS Software only. The proposed contract is for a period of three years and has a total anticipated value of 1,946,709.41 GBP excluding VAT. The main items / services to be provided by the Supplier shall include the following: • The provision of IBM Software Subscription and Support for on-premise installations of IBM SPSS software based on the requirements of the User Organisations. • The re-instatement of Software Subscription and Support Coverage for lapsed coverage. • The provision of SPSS software-specific support to resolve incidents and bugs identified by User Organisations in their day-to-day usage of the SPSS software. • Access for User Organisations to ongoing updates of the IBM SPSS products in use. The value of the procurement noted at II.1.7 above is up to £1,946,709.41. This is made up of: • The contract price; • Indexation; • Potential downstream additional licences;

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 48100000 - Industry specific software package
• 48461000 - Analytical or scientific software package
• 48462000 - Mathematical or forecasting software package
• 48463000 - Statistical software package
• 72261000 - Software support services
• 72267000 - Software maintenance and repair services
• 72268000 - Software supply services

Legal Justification

The Authority intends to enter into this agreement with the Supplier on the basis that regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 applies, i.e. that only the Supplier can provide the services required because the competition is absent for technical reasons. The Authority considers that no reasonable alternative substitute exists, and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. This is for the following reasons: • The critical nature of the IBM SPSS software in use as part of operations, investigations, and demand analysis undertaken by the User Organisations. • Due to the proprietary nature of the IBM SPSS software owned solely by the Supplier, no other supplier is able to provide new features, updates, patches or licences for the products. • The Authority is satisfied that there is no comparable licence available to allow User Organisations to continue to use the IBM SPSS.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** BlueLight Commercial work in collaboration with blue light organisations to maximise commercial benefits to UK emergency services. The current membership of BlueLight Commercial consists of policing bodies, as well as bodies responsible for Fire and Rescue services and other bluelight sector members. For the avoidance of doubt, at the time of publication, BlueLight Commercial has not entered into a new agreement with IBM United Kingdom Limited for these services.