Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-08
Buyer: Fife College
Country: UK
Region: Clackmannanshire and Fife
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30237110 | 32400000 | 32410000 | 32412000 | 32412110
Estimated value: 700000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Fife College requires a Contract to allow the purchase and maintenance of network products and services for the College's local, wireless and wide area networks.
The purpose of this Contract is for the College to establish a best value, consistent method of purchasing and maintaining network products and relevant services. The network products can be hardware or software based. Such products include, but are not limited to, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Hyper-Converged Products, Wireless Controllers, Wireless Access Points, Network Virtual Appliances or Packaged Installers, Gateway Security, Network Access Control, Network Security, Logging and Reporting and Content Filtering etc. This also includes relevant cloud-based or otherwise hosted network products and subscription services.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
ESPD Question ref 4A.1: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
ESPD Question ref 4A.2: Where it is required, within a bidder's country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service.
Bidders must complete the European Single Procurement Document (Scotland). There are a number of conditions
for participation/minimum requirements which are set out in the procurement documents. Details of these conditions, as well as the evaluation
process and scoring methodology can be found in the procurement documents (Invitation To Tender), which can
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in
ESPD Question reference 4B.1.1: Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of 300,000 GBP for the last 2 years.
ESPD Question reference 4B.3: Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
ESPD Question reference 4B.5.1: It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
You must be able to attend Fife College sites, listed in Annex A of the Specification, within 4 hours for priority calls requiring an engineer service call-out.
Your submission will be excluded from further participation in this procurement if you/sub-contractor(s) cannot attend onsite to Fife College sites within 4 hours for priority calls requiring engineer service call-out.

Eligibility requirements: ESPD Question ref 4A.1: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. ESPD Question ref 4A.2: Where it is required, within a bidder's country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service. Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.

Award value: 700000