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In a few hours\u2019 time, those of us who watch UK public sector will say au revoir to one of our most generous providers of stories. From 1 January 2021, UK public sector procurement notices \u2013 announcements that an organisation is thinking about or offering to buy something, has bought it or has cancelled its plans \u2013 will no longer appear on Tenders Electronic Daily<\/a>, aka TED, aka the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, aka Ojeu.<\/p>\n

Ojeu notices provided government open data before the idea became fashionable, by making public sector organisations disclose what they were buying and for how much. Even today, 31 December 2020, a search on common procurement vocabulary code 48000000 (software package and information systems) finds three Ojeu notices. Nottingham University NHS Trust is paying Micad Systems<\/a> \u00a3196,000 for workspace optimisation and cleaning audit software and Thames Valley Police has plumped for David Horn Communications<\/a> for its \u00a310m digital interview recording equipment deal.<\/p>\n

The search also finds University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust\u2019s \u00a33bn Total Workforce Solutions II deal<\/a>. Such massive numbers have enlivened many an Ojeu-based headline over the years, but have to be taken with very large amounts of sodium chloride. Total Workforce Solutions II (great name, you can almost see the poster) is a framework staffing deal covering many suppliers, and the software part is one of four elements in lot 2b that comes to just \u00a325m.<\/p>\n

Hacking through this kind of detail to find something interesting \u2013 such as confirmation in an Ojeu prior information notice that Transport for London will retain Oyster cards<\/a> while moving them to the same system used for contactless payment cards (which I wrote a few weeks ago when filling in for PublicTechnology\u2019s editor) \u2013 is what makes trawling procurement notices so worthwhile.<\/p>\n

The good news is that Brexit means a brand-new British procurement system, Find a Tender<\/a>. It was due to appear at 11pm tonight, but while I was writing this mid-afternoon the site seems to have gone live. At the bottom of the page, it reads: \u201cNotices are based on TED XML schema. \u00a9 European Union, http:\/\/ted.europa.eu, 1998\u20132019\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not adieu, Ojeu, just au revoir.<\/p>\n

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