Although the blog has been a little quiet once again, work has been continuing in the background and the procurement cogs have continued to turn.

A number of companies submitted responses to our invitation to tender. An evaluation panel reviewed the submissions, shortlisted, attended presentations and after scoring each solution made a recommendation to select a particular supplier, which was then ratified by the project board.

The contract has been awarded to Phoenix IT Services Ltd and work on delivering the solution will now start with a series of low level design workshops.

Now that the competition process is complete, the project board have agreed that this blog can be made publically visible.