Pura Commercial & Contract Radar

Data Lake House Analytics and Insight for West Midlands Fire Service

UNKNOWN

What happened?

Award notice from West Midlands Fire Service. Relevance is supported by notice evidence.

Facts

{
  "award_values": [
    {
      "amount": 250000,
      "currency": "GBP"
    }
  ],
  "buyer": "West Midlands Fire Service",
  "buyer_reference": "C6081",
  "contact_email": "Polly.Morgan@wmfs.net",
  "contact_name": "Polly Morgan",
  "contact_restrictions": [],
  "contacts": [
    {
      "email": "Polly.Morgan@wmfs.net",
      "name": "Polly Morgan",
      "organisation": "West Midlands Fire Service",
      "telephone": "0121 380 6177"
    }
  ],
  "contract_terms": [
    {
      "endDate": "2027-10-21T23:59:59+01:00",
      "startDate": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+01:00"
    }
  ],
  "cpv": [
    {
      "description": "IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support",
      "id": "72000000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    }
  ],
  "currency": "GBP",
  "days_to_deadline": -63,
  "deadline": "2026-09-01T15:00:00+01:00",
  "deadline_conflict": false,
  "deadline_kind": "TENDER",
  "deadline_narrative": "",
  "deadline_structured": "2026-09-01T15:00:00+01:00",
  "deadline_time_unpublished": false,
  "demo_evidence": [],
  "direct_contact_evidence": [],
  "engagement_route": "",
  "estimated_value": 250000,
  "expansion_scope": "Complete official OCDS release; linked restricted documents require separate verification.",
  "extensions": [],
  "fully_expanded": true,
  "geographic_scope": [
    [
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "West Midlands"
      }
    ]
  ],
  "hidden_opportunity": true,
  "historical_engagement_evidence": "",
  "incumbent_evidence": [],
  "linked_documents": [],
  "lot_count": 0,
  "lot_scope": [],
  "meeting_evidence": [],
  "notice_type": "AWARD",
  "procurement_method": "Call-off from a framework agreement",
  "procurement_status": "complete",
  "publication_date": "2026-10-27T11:28:43Z",
  "published_corrections": [],
  "published_notice_types": [],
  "published_requirement": "West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) has awarded a contract to a delivery partner to provide a complete, fixed-price engagement to design, build, govern and transition a cloud-based Lakehouse data platform that will serve as the organisation's single trusted source of data and insight. \r\nThe contract consists of 2 phases;\r\n\r\nPhase 1 - Discovery and Insight: Assessment of business requirements, the data landscape, architecture options, the delivery approach, and the implementation roadmap.\r\n\r\nPhase 2 - Design and Build (Optional): Subject to the successful completion and outcomes of Phase 1, WMFS may, at its sole discretion, instruct the supplier to proceed with the design, implementation, governance and transition of the Lakehouse platform.\r\n\r\nThe contract value includes both Phase 1 and the optional Phase 2. No commitment is made to proceed with Phase 2, which will be awarded only after completion and evaluation of Phase 1.",
  "questionnaire_evidence": [],
  "reference": "d53719f8-012c-4850-8e65-a3063fc5d1d4-919169",
  "registration_evidence": [],
  "relevance_evidence": {
    "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
      "software development"
    ]
  },
  "requirement_items": "",
  "selection_requirements": [],
  "sme_suitability": [
    {
      "sme": true,
      "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": [
        "software development"
      ]
    },
    "type": "HIDDEN_ADDRESSABLE_ELEMENT"
  }
]

Unknowns

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Possible services

[
  {
    "confidence": "MEDIUM",
    "rationale": "software development",
    "service": "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY"
  }
]

Provenance

{
  "licence": "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "ocid": "ocds-b5fd17-f19b3b17-28f1-4823-bc2e-a45f08943c28",
  "release_id": "d53719f8-012c-4850-8e65-a3063fc5d1d4-919169"
}

Related signals

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