VEAT Notification for Liquid Logic Support and Maintenance

The Council is looking to contract for Support and Maintenance with Liquid Logic on the existing Children's Social Care System purchased in 2008.The contract is not to procure a new system or solution, it is purely to cover the existing system with on-going support and maintenance.This support contract will give the Council rights to product upgrades, new product functionalities, fixes and patches for the existing solution. Competition is absent for technical reasons and the protection of exclusive rights (source code). Liquid Logic do not allow other 3rd parties to provide support and maintenance of the intellectual property. No alternative or substitute exists that can provide this support and maintenance.