Published Date: 8 December 2017
Tender Status: active
Tender Opening Date: 8 December 2017
Tender Closing Date: 17 January 2018
Award Date: n/a
Contract Start Date: n/a
Contract End Date: n/a
Contract is suitable for SMEs: No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs: No
Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Type: Services
The Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Secretary of State for the Department for International Development (DFID) and the British Council (BC) (the Procuring Bodies) have a requirement for global, resilient, flexible and scalable enterprise wide voice and data connectivity services. These services are required to connect ministerial headquarters and other head offices in the United Kingdom with their respective embassies, consulates and other office locations totalling approximately 550 sites in 170 countries.
The connectivity services to be made available under the framework agreement will include:
• Managed Wide Area Network;
• Campus Local Area Network;
• Intelligent Routing Function;
• Management and Reporting;
• IP Address Management / Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol / Domain Name Service;
• Network Time Protocol;
• Secure Internet Gateway;
• Local Internet Breakout;
• Integration Services;
• Ancillary and related services;
• Tunnel mechanism*;
• Remote Access Server*;
• Firewall Services*;
• Global Load Balancing / Load Balancing*;
• WAN Acceleration*;
• Uninterruptable Power Supply*;
• Intrusion Prevention / Detection System*;
• Network Access Control*.
Asterisks denote optional services that framework users may call-off from the framework in conjunction with the other services ("non-core services").
The scope of the services will include transition from the incumbent supplier, provision of the connectivity services and exit management services to support transition to a replacement service provider on expiry of the call off contracts.
The connectivity service supplier will be required to work with the provider of the voice and video service, that will be provided separately to some or all of the Procuring Bodies, to ensure that the end to end service meets the requirements of the end users.
The connectivity service supplier will also be expected to provide a range of lifecycle and common services as an integral part of the contracted solutions including:
- project services: are services associated with the delivery of change to the operational and technical environment under a supplier's control, such as service design and costing, technical, project and business change consultancy, change management, transition and exit management,
- operational services: are those elements that must be supplied under all the contracts and that must be delivered as an inherent part of all the services such as end-to-end management delivery, incident management and financial, change, configuration and service management.
Estimated total value: £75m - £350m
Contact name: n/a
Address: Commerical Procurement Group, Room K.2.11, King Charles Street
London
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England
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