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NMS Software Licence Purchase and Support Renewal

Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 30 Sept 2026, 08:34.

Opportunity overview

This engagement ensures that the critial operations system, Oracle Network Management System (NMS)1 maintenance and licencing remains in place. Given NMS’ integral role in NIE Networks’ network operations outage management, fault and emergency response and storm escalations, it is essential to maintain NMS and ensure it is fully supported so that continuity of service can remain. As this supplier has intellectual property rights only this supplier can supply the services required, and there are no reasonable alternatives.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Oracle Corporation UK Limited

Matched by number
Published award value
£1.4m
Awarded
1 Sept 2025
Award ID
1
Status
active
Identifier
GB-COH 01782505
Location
Reading, Berkshire, UKJ11, RG6 1RA, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-05924b
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
Clause 41 “Direct Award in Special Cases” of the Procurement Act 2023, Schedule 5 where due to a particular supplier having intellectual property rights or other exclusive rights, only that supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Special regime

utilities

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersIntellectualPropertyExclusiveRights

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published
Document Type
conflictOfInterest

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-COH-NI026041
Name
Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UK
Country
GB
Locality
Belfast
Postal Code
BT9 5HT
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
120 Malone Road

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
privateUtility
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Private utility
Entry 2
Id
GB-NIR
Scheme
UK_CA_DEVOLVED_REGULATIONS
Description
Northern Irish devolved regulations apply

Identifier

Id
NI026041
Scheme
GB-COH

Contact

Organisation 2
Id
GB-COH-01782505
Name
Oracle Corporation UK Limited

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKJ11
Country
GB
Locality
Reading, Berkshire
Postal Code
RG6 1RA
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Oracle Parkway,Thames Valley Park

Details

Vcse
No
Scale
large
Sheltered Workshop
No
Public Service Mission Organization
No

Identifier

Id
01782505
Scheme
GB-COH

Contact

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Date
2 Sept 2025, 00:00
Title
NMS Software Licence Purchase and Support Renewal
Status
active
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
services

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKN
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 2
Region
UKN
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
72212218
Scheme
CPV
Description
License management software development services

Value

Amount
1,357,000
Currency
GBP
Including VAT
1,628,400

Documents

Entry 1
Id
053200-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
awardNotice
Published
2 Sept 2025, 14:31
Entry 2
Id
053258-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK6
Description
Contract award notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
awardNotice
Published
2 Sept 2025, 15:49

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-01782505
Name
Oracle Corporation UK Limited

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Status
scheduled
Due
3 Sept 2025, 23:59

Related lots

1

Contract period

Ends
30 Sept 2028, 23:59
Starts
1 Oct 2025, 00:00

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Belfast · UK · BT9 5HT · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-05924b-2025-09-02T15:49:43+01:00Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·