Transformation of Legacy Finance, Purchase-To-Pay, and Business Planning Systems

Description

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) are looking to procure a cloud solution and implementation services to replace the organisation’s current legacy Finance, Purchase to Pay, and Business Planning systems. In addition to the above-noted core solution and related services, FLS may require the provision of certain optional solutions and services and/or additional solutions and services relating to FLS’s HR and Payroll systems, which optional or additional solutions and/or services would be required to provide FLS with seamless data flow between its HR and Payroll systems and its Finance, Purchase to Pay and Business Planning systems. There is no obligation on FLS to require the provision of any such optional or additional solutions and/or services by the successful tenderer, nor on bidders to provide these, and FLS shall be entitled at its discretion to procure any solutions and/or services that are the same as or similar to the optional or additional solutions and/or services from any third party. Further detail in relation to the specification of the above-noted core solution and related services and the optional or additional solutions and/or services and FLS’s requirements in relation thereto will be contained in the procurement documents relative to this contract opportunity Lot 1: The purpose of this procurement is to implement a modern, integrated, modular, enterprise system with a centralised database that has the ability to support FLS’ finance, purchase to pay and business planning processes. It must be able to integrate with 3rd party systems, operate in real-time, provide meaningful management information and have a consistent look and feel across all business modules. The solution will provide the foundation for Digital Transformation across FLS and the delivery of the FLS draft Digital Strategy. The contract will be subject to Community Benefits and support FLS to meet their requirements of the Climate Change (Duties of Public Bodies: Reporting Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020 and the sustainability targets. The estimated value of this procurement is circa 4.5M GBP - 6M GBP