Tender Summary

Provision of SAP ERP Procurement and Discovery Services

Buying Organisation

Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited

Contract Value

£2,700,000

Tender Description

NIE Networks has been operating on SAP products since 1999 when SAP ECC was implemented. In 2012 the company made a strategic investment by implementing the utility application SAP IS-U, further adding to the utilisation of SAP products and establishing a core technology platform on NIE Networks IT estate.
The continued stability of NIE Networks day to day operations and customer services relies on a range of IT applications and infrastructure. A central part of the IT estate is the series of SAP applications that forms a fundamental element in supporting the core NIE Networks business and market processes. Multiple internal non-SAP applications and external partner systems are integrated with the SAP system estate, working together to provide end to end business capabilities and overall compliance with Regulatory, Market and Statutory obligations.
From the end of 2027, the current version of SAP ERP transitions to extended vendor support arrangements and will be out of full support by the end of 2030.
NIE Networks Ltd plans to upgrade to SAP S/4 HANA to ensure interoperability with current systems be maintained and to fully leverage new technologies and functionalities on an established platform, thus maintaining a stable and secure system within the companys IT estate.
The upgrade to S/4 HANA is expected to be delivered across two key stages. To support the first stage (Stage 1) NIE Networks has a requirement to engage professional services across two lots, to support the completion of a planning and discovery phase which will result in the appointment of a System Integrator to deliver the second stage (Stage 2) of the project.
It is intended that the Contracting Entity will, subject to a sufficient number of compliant responses being received, enter into Framework Agreements with 2 Economic Operators for the Provision of SAP ERP Procurement and Discovery Support. The requirement will be split in to two lots as follows: One Economic Operator for Lot 1 - Professional Services to Support the Procurement on an ERP System Integrator and one Economic Operator for Lot 2 - SAP S/4 HANA Professional Services.
Separate Agreements will be entered into with each successful Economic Operator. The Contracting Entity estimates that the total spend under the Framework Agreement, based on current requirements, is anticipated to be between 0.6 million and 1.1 million for Lot 1 and between 0.8 million and 1.6 million for Lot 2.

Tender categories (products & services required)

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
Financial systems software development services (CPV 72212442)
Enterprise resource planning software development services (CPV 72212451)
Procurement software development services (CPV 72212490)
IT software development services (CPV 72212517)
Software development services utilities (CPV 72212700)
Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 72220000)
Business analysis consultancy services (CPV 72221000)
Project management consultancy services (CPV 72224000)
System implementation planning services (CPV 72224100)
System quality assurance planning services (CPV 72224200)
Systems consultancy services (CPV 72246000)
Software consultancy services (CPV 72266000)
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (CPV 79000000)
Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 79400000)
Business and management consultancy services (CPV 79410000)
Procurement consultancy services (CPV 79418000)

Region

Northern Ireland (UKN)

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