Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and support partner

SAP was introduced into the Council in 2011 and supports the delivery of the Council's HR/ Payroll, Finance, Procurement, Budgeting/ Forecasting and Reporting Services. The system has a vast number of transactions through it each month. The underlying SAP operating system and associated software will cease to receive security updates from July 2026 and so needs to be reprocured to move to a supported and cloud hosted version. There is not the desire to move away from SAP due to the potential disruption to services and timeframes. The Council is requesting tenders from suitably experienced and qualified providers to be the system implementation and support partner for the duration of the contract with the software provider, a maximum period of ten (10) years. The Council is undertaking a further competition under the terms of the Software Design and Implementation Services, RM6193. The software is being sourced separately via Back Office Software, RM6194.