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GIS Solutions and Services

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Buyer
Forestry Commission
Supplier(s)
ESRI (UK) LIMITED
Value
£3,250,000
Duration
5 years
Topic
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published
12 July 2024
Source
uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Provision of an externally hosted systems solution delivered to web browsers, with remote access to hosting servers for data management purposes. 'Forester' GIS is an integrated platform for land management, and used by all public forestry bodies in GB. Forester provides the single spatial solution for multi-functional and dispersed teams to manage and collaborate on inventory and management data. The contract covers 1. Continuation of our Business-as-Usual operation (including hosted infrastructure to run Forester as a Managed Service, Application support and maintenance, development services to provide extensions to existing functionality and integrations to 3rd party applications) 2. Discovery and Design of the future roadmap for Forester (review of the current design and deployment pattern for Forester against modern patterns, possibly involving a major re-write of application code and movement to new development frameworks) 3. Phased implementation of the Roadmap and transition of service arrangements.

Timeline

  1. Award date1 April 2024
  2. Award published12 July 2024
    Current notice
  3. Contract expiry date31 March 2029in 2 years

About the buyer

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial department for forestry policy, with procurement run through its agencies, Forestry England and Forest Research, coordinated by a Bristol-based commercial team. District offices handle smaller purchases locally through direct quotations. Frameworks, including the Crown Commercial Service, supply many everyday goods and services. Dynamic purchasing systems cover recurring work such as tree planting, civil engineering, fencing and wildlife management.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Forestry Commission's contract awards have been in agricultural and horticultural services, construction work and business services.

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