In 2010 at the outset of the outsourced arrangement with Sopra Steria, part of the service improvement programme was the upgrading of the existing Origin HR system to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS.)
Oracle E-Business is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for HR, Recruitment, iLearning, all aspects of Finance and Procurement which incorporates the Capita Origin Duty Management System (DMS).
The existing EBS platform is now aged and will no longer be supported beyond December 2021. A business case was approved to invest and upgrade the Platform.
In July 2020 SopraSteria, under the outsourced arrangement, will complete a technical change where the current system has been upgraded and re-platformed to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
The upgraded platform will be administered and supported by SopraSteria until the 30th September 2020 at which point the responsibility moves back to the OPCC along with licences, support contracts and Hardware.
A new contract is required to be put in place in advance of the 30th September to ensure t Oracle EBS and Capita System are fully licenced and supported.
A decision was made for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland to put in place a single Managed Service Contract to ensure that all aspects of the contract were included i.e. management of Oracle and Capita, support and maintenance and upgrades and patching. This approach will reduce the number of third party suppliers the PCC will manage and reduce risks in relation to licencing. An Open Tender Procurement was the chosen as the most effective way to procure the services to enable a wide selection of bidders to apply.
Decision 2020-00229899 -Procurement Report for Oracle business software (application, 337kB)