Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bdb-9ea5-73bb-94f2-4c624f25af04/t117-digital-services-platform-support-maintenance-and-enhancement closed GB restricted procedure Suitable for SMEs # T117 Digital Services Platform Support Maintenance and Enhancement [Northern Ireland Water Ltd](https://tendernation.io/buyers/northern-ireland-water-ltd) Estimated value £8,000,000 Published 21 May 2026 Deadline Closed 19 Jun 2026 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender The Contract scope covers: 1 Business-as-usual support and maintenance for the live Digital Services platform 2 An initial defined enhancement phase (Digital Version 2) 3 The potential for further governance-approved enhancements over the contract term. Support and Maintenance Services The Contract includes the provision of support and maintenance services for the Digital Services platform across the contract term. This includes application support for customer facing and staff facing services, incident, problem, and defect management, ongoing maintenance of platform components and integrations, routine release support, minor service requests necessary to keep the platform safe, stable and effective in operation and knowledge retention appropriate to a live business-critical environment. NI Water’s operational teams perform first-line support, identifying and triaging incoming incidents, supported by established monitoring and documented runbooks. Suppliers should understand that support and maintenance activity will need to operate within NI Water’s established service management processes and involve collaboration with NI Water teams through diagnosis, resolution and controlled release of fixes. Specific service levels and service management arrangements will be defined at ITT stage. 4.2 Enhancement Delivery The Contract includes an initial defined enhancement phase (Digital Version 2) together with the potential for further governance-approved enhancement activity over the contract term. NI Water maintains a prioritised list of potential enhancements for the Digital Services platform. Items on this list have undergone varying degrees of assessment and categorisation and some have progressed through discovery and design. As part of this procurement, a prioritised set of enhancements referred to as Digital Version 2 will be included as a defined programme of work under the Contract. Digital Version 2 comprises the highest-priority items currently selected from NI Water’s enhancement list. NI Water will issue the relevant design and delivery artefacts to shortlisted Suppliers at ITT stage to inform pricing. Further enhancement activity may be commissioned under the Contract over time, subject to governance, business case approval, prioritisation, and funding decisions. No commitment is given that any such additional enhancement activity will be commissioned. Any such work will be commissioned under the Contract through governance-approved Statements of Work. Read full description ## CPV classification IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support Hardware consultancy services Software programming and consultancy services Data services Computer-related services Computer support and consultancy services Computer network services Computer audit and testing services Source Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-0683e3-2026-05-21T13:05:56+01:00 [View official notice](https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/ocds-h6vhtk-0683e3-2026-05-21T13:05:56+01:00) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. 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