Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-01-10
Buyer: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 32412100 | 50330000 | 72000000 | 72710000: Local area network services | 72720000: Wide area network services

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
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, secure, resilient, flexible and scalable voice and enterprise wide data network communication 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.
It is currently envisaged that this requirement will be split into lots covering (1) Network services and (2) Voice services.
The Partners have a requirement for a global, secure, flexible and scalable voice and enterprise wide data network connectivity services linking their ministerial headquarters and other head offices in the United Kingdom with their respective embassies, consulates and other office locations totalling approximately 550 sites in approximately 170 countries throughout the world.
Network services will include: the provision of data network services (wide and local area), internet access, encryption, network optimisation, access to cloud providers.
The precise scope of the services, division into lots, lot boundaries are subject to on-going review and will be finalised following supplier engagement activities.
The FCO will be the contracting authority for this procurement, acting on behalf of the Procuring Bodies and potentially other UK public bodies who will use the services.
The Partners have a requirement for a global, secure, flexible and scalable voice and enterprise wide data network connectivity services linking their ministerial headquarters and other head offices in the United Kingdom with their respective embassies, consulates and other office locations totalling approximately 550 sites in approximately 170 countries throughout the world.
The Voice services will include: the provision, maintenance and support of required infrastructure (e.g. handsets, PBXs), call handling (e.g. contact centres), unified communication tools and cloud based telephony solutions. The Procuring Bodies envisage that there may be opportunities for the Voice services to retain elements of the current core Mitel telephony solution.
The precise scope of the services, division into lots, lot boundaries are subject to on-going review and will be finalised following supplier engagement activities.
The FCO will be the contracting authority for this procurement, acting on behalf of the Procuring Bodies and potentially other UK public bodies who will use the services.
The Partners intend engaging and consulting with the technology industry sector as widely as possible before the procurement is formally launched with a Contract Notice in Q1 2017.
The first part of this engagement will utilise the facilities of techUK's Concept Viability Programme. This allows public sector customers to have a two-way dialogue with the technology market sector, and provides suppliers of all sizes, including SMEs, with an opportunity to help shape and validate ideas, plans and requirements.
This event is scheduled to take place on the 3.2.2017– please contact events@techuk.org for further information and details of registering your interest in attending.