Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-27
Buyer: Jisc Services Ltd
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 30210000 | 30230000 | 30232000 | 31214100 | 32000000
Estimated value: 120000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-06-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Équipements et appareils de radio, de télévision, de communication, de télécommunication et équipements connexes
The supply of telecommunications infrastructure, supporting facilities, equipment and services to enable Jisc to support the connectivity requirements of the Janet community over the next 5-10 years.
Access connectivity, together with aggregation/co-location facilities, including but not limited to short haul managed circuit products (EAD or equivalent) aggregated in Janet PoPs potentially located in telco or provider-neutral premises, with (resilient) backhaul to Janet, wavelength services, dark fibre, aggregated in Janet PoPs potentially located in telco premises, with (resilient) backhaul to Janet and next generation managed products (Etherway/Etherflow or equivalent), aggregated by the supplier and presented at Janet backbone PoP locations.
JSL wishes to establish a framework agreement for an initial period of 5 years, with options to extend the framework for periods of a further 3 years and 2 years (5+3+2).
In order to future proof the investment under this framework JSL is looking to procure hardware capable of providing an edge demarcation between the site and the Janet network. These devices need to form part of a unified solution capable of providing speeds from 1 Gb/s through multiple 10 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s over the duration of the lifetime of the framework. Whilst a single device does not need to be in-life for all these stages a solution based upon a single family of devices is preferred to reduce operational complexity.
In addition a range of aggregation devices may be needed as part of the deployment in order more efficiently to utilise the services procured under Lot 1. Organisations tendering for Lot 2 should be aware that the current Janet 6 core is built using a combination of Ciena and Juniper hardware and interoperability with these manufacturers' equipment is paramount.
JSL wishes to establish a framework agreement for an initial period of 5 years, with options to extend the framework for periods of a further 3 years and 2 years (5+3+2).
Professional services, including but not necessarily limited to design, deployment and ongoing support for equipment and field engineering operations.
JSL wishes to establish a framework agreement for an initial period of 5 years, with options to extend the framework for periods of a further 3 years and 2 years (5+3+2).
A supplier briefing day will be held on 6.6.2017 in London. If suppliers wish to attend the briefing day they should e-mail: procurement@jisc.ac.uk
Each interested supplier is required to register its intention to submit a response to this PQQ via the Jisc e-tendering portal at https://tenders.jisc.ac.uk
Jisc Services Limited will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 article 91 provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).


Award value: 120000000