Estimated Value
Up to £219,334
Deadline
28 April 2025
Published
6 August 2025
Type
services
Overview
The University of Strathclyde is seeking to contract with a Unit 4 "Elite" or "Premier" Partner to provide a managed service to develop and support an SQL server interim platform (phase 1) for the University's Financial systems and then perform a key support role for Phase 2 to migrate to Unit4 Cloud. This will involve working with the University IT and Finance teams who currently support the on-premises solution.
The University of Strathclyde (UoS) is embarking on a project to migrate it's on premise Oracle19 based Unit 4 Business World Finance Milestone 7 to Unit4 Cloud ERP (CR) over a 2 stage process. The University of Strathclyde is seeking to contract with a Unit 4 "Elite" or "Premier" Partner to provide a managed service to develop and support a Microsoft SQL server interim platform (phase 1) for the University's Financial systems and then perform a key support role for Phase 2 to migrate to Unit4 ERP CR Cloud.
This will involve working with the University IT and Finance teams who currently support the on-premises solution. Phase 1 :To setup, migrate and support the transition of Milestone 7 and related modules to Microsoft SQL server as an overall managed service for approximately 18 months.
Additional details
Phase 2: To migrate from the interim Microsoft SQL server solution to Unit4's ERP CR Cloud based platform For phase 1: to set up the interim Microsoft SQL server solution this will involve Working directly with UoS IT teams, set up and installation of an interim Microsoft SQL server database platform for Milestone 7. This will be on-premises within the University. 3 environments are needed for Test, Production and Training.
This will serve Finance and Estates modules. Migration and testing of the on-premises data and business applications to the interim Microsoft SQL server platform including working with UoS team for data integrations and interfaces.
After go live, provide a managed service for support of the application for any major issues with the application/servers/database including performance, systems outage and patching e.g. for security issues. Upgrade of Milestone 7 v9 to the latest version prior to migration to the Unit 4 ERP CR Cloud solution. To perform a role on the project board to report contractor's progress and issues.
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Arribatec UK Ltd
£219,334
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University of StrathclydeKey Dates
Published
6 August 2025
Submission deadline
28 April 2025
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