Public procurement notice: Periodic Indicative Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2019-03-27
Buyer: Yorkshire Water Services Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 67000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-04-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Yorkshire Water Services Ltd (YWS) are seeking partners to operate on a framework for the provision of IT infrastructure goods and services.
When in place, this framework will provide YWS with the ability to access a full range of IT infrastructure services (from advice and guidance, through design, delivery and operation) from a small number of partners.
— those services will be accessed through competitive in framework mini-tenders which the partners can elect to participate in,
— the framework will also provide direct sourcing of commodity IT infrastructure goods and services through a catalogue-style arrangement.
This framework covers the IT infrastructure needs identified for the next 3 years, which in turn underpin all of YWS’ business operations, ensuring systems are available, reliable, secure, and operating cost-effectively.
This framework is intended for a duration of 3 years, with the possibility of a 3-year extension, followed by a further 2-year extension.
YWS are seeking to modernise and transform their underlying IT infrastructure to support the application delivery pipeline and improve speed to market. This modernisation has a focus on delivering more software-defined architectures and infrastructure automation, improving workflows and enhancing continuous performance monitoring. As part of UK Critical National Infrastructure, YWS are focused on delivering a secure service which is both cost effective while empowering its customers to help change the shape of the business.
YWS intend to implement a framework involving a small number of partners, who collectively will provide access to a broad set of goods, services and capabilities in IT infrastructure. YWS seek partners with a strong track record in some, or all, of the following:
— enterprise datacentre, hybrid cloud, DevOps and digital transformation, with access to a range of solutions and vendors to deliver YWS’ requirements; IT infrastructure modernization and consolidation (e.g. SAN, Compute and Backup converged into single platforms),
— rapid deployment of wireless resources, pop-up branches, secure BYOD workplace, wireless surveys and spectrum analysis and innovative technologies new to market,
— software-defined architectures and infrastructure automation; self-healing and self-optimising infrastructure; self-service/self-provisioning of IT infrastructure,
— analytics technologies to forecast and nullify incidents before they occur; full visibility and contextual analytics across users, devices and apps, to drive proactive decision-making,
— expert consultants and training capabilities to embed new skills within YWS (e.g. PowerShell and REST scripting),
— experience implementing and servicing technology in organisations like YWS, with a large field-based workforce, large customer contact centre, extensive plant infrastructure and remote office/branch office locations,

Eligibility requirements: As the single bidding entity you must meet one of the following as a minimum: either 1) The single bidding entity or your established partners must be a premier partner and reseller of Cisco, with at least one full-time employee certified with CCIE, and at least 4 full-time employees certified with CCNP; or 2) The single bidding entity must be an authorized partner and reseller of Microsoft enterprise technologies and licence agreements.

Award value: 67000000