Pura Commercial & Contract Radar

Reporting and storage of data services

UNKNOWN

What happened?

Award notice from ASTER GROUP LIMITED. Relevance is supported by notice evidence.

Facts

{
  "award_values": [
    {
      "amount": 75503,
      "currency": "GBP"
    }
  ],
  "buyer": "ASTER GROUP LIMITED",
  "buyer_reference": "CAS-01453-L1R4M4",
  "contact_email": "kate.potts@aster.co.uk",
  "contact_name": "Kate Potts",
  "contact_restrictions": [],
  "contacts": [
    {
      "email": "kate.potts@aster.co.uk",
      "name": "Kate Potts",
      "organisation": "ASTER GROUP LIMITED",
      "telephone": "07957749258"
    }
  ],
  "contract_terms": [
    {
      "endDate": "2032-08-24T23:59:59+01:00",
      "startDate": "2025-08-25T00:00:00+01:00"
    }
  ],
  "cpv": [
    {
      "description": "IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support",
      "id": "72000000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    }
  ],
  "currency": "GBP",
  "days_to_deadline": -437,
  "deadline": "2025-08-24T00:00:00+01:00",
  "deadline_conflict": false,
  "deadline_kind": "TENDER",
  "deadline_narrative": "",
  "deadline_structured": "2025-08-24T00:00:00+01:00",
  "deadline_time_unpublished": false,
  "demo_evidence": [],
  "direct_contact_evidence": [],
  "engagement_route": "",
  "estimated_value": 75503,
  "expansion_scope": "Complete official OCDS release; linked restricted documents require separate verification.",
  "extensions": [],
  "fully_expanded": true,
  "geographic_scope": [
    [
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "East of England"
      },
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "London"
      },
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "South East"
      },
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "South West"
      }
    ]
  ],
  "hidden_opportunity": true,
  "historical_engagement_evidence": "",
  "incumbent_evidence": [],
  "linked_documents": [],
  "lot_count": 0,
  "lot_scope": [],
  "meeting_evidence": [],
  "notice_type": "AWARD",
  "procurement_method": "Single tender action (below threshold)",
  "procurement_status": "complete",
  "publication_date": "2026-10-26T10:05:08Z",
  "published_corrections": [],
  "published_notice_types": [],
  "published_requirement": "This contract award is for the provision of a 7-year legacy HR data archiving solution provided by MHR International UK Limited.\r\n\r\nFollowing the migration of Aster Group's active HR and payroll operations to Dayforce, static historical employee records-including personnel management, sickness, absence, and payroll data-will remain securely hosted in the legacy iTrent application environment. The contract provides continued, read-only access to this historical data to satisfy statutory regulatory compliance, reporting, and business intelligence requirements over the required 7-year retention period, after which all data will be permanently deleted.\r\n\r\nThis requirement was awarded directly under an approved exception to Contract Standing Orders. As MHR International UK Limited currently hosts the iTrent system and data, utilising their integrated data archive solution ensures continuous access without operational downtime. Alternative options (data migration to a third party or internal data warehouse development) were assessed and determined non-viable due to significantly higher migration costs and resource constraints.",
  "questionnaire_evidence": [],
  "reference": "54ce1ef4-0037-4fd8-b8e3-89b597d1abca-919108",
  "registration_evidence": [],
  "relevance_evidence": {
    "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
      "data migration",
      "software development"
    ]
  },
  "requirement_items": "",
  "selection_requirements": [],
  "sme_suitability": [
    {
      "sme": false,
      "vcse": false
    }
  ],
  "submission_method": "UNKNOWN",
  "value_excluding_vat": null,
  "value_including_vat": null,
  "value_minimum": null,
  "value_scope": "TOTAL_NOTICE_NOT_PURA_ADDRESSABLE",
  "vat_basis": "VAT basis not explicit in release"
}

Commercial inferences

[
  {
    "basis": {
      "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
        "data migration",
        "software development"
      ]
    },
    "type": "HIDDEN_ADDRESSABLE_ELEMENT"
  }
]

Unknowns

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Possible services

[
  {
    "confidence": "HIGH",
    "rationale": "data migration, software development",
    "service": "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY"
  }
]

Provenance

{
  "licence": "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "ocid": "ocds-b5fd17-8c0663f5-c6b3-4ed4-a21b-d498f9a207b6",
  "release_id": "54ce1ef4-0037-4fd8-b8e3-89b597d1abca-919108"
}

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