Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-08-06
Buyer: Valleys to Coast Housing Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72222300: Information technology services | 72251000: Disaster recovery services | 72253200: Computer systems support services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72510000: Computer-related management services
Submission deadline: 2019-09-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract is for a solution to provide cloud based hosting, storage and backup services for V2C’s business applications, wide area network and related security services, thin client end-user device solution and associated managed services to implement and support the solution. It is expected that the solution provided will optimally deploy public cloud services and will include migration of email to a public cloud service such as Microsoft Office 365 or Google G Suite. The solution provided will be highly-resilient and should include appropriate disaster recovery and/or business continuity services.
Bidders should refer to the Technical statement of requirements (‘TSoR’) appended at Appendix 2 of this ITT for full details of V2C’s requirements and the services that the successful Bidder will be required to provide under the contract.
The contract is for a solution to provide cloud based hosting, storage and backup services for V2C’s business applications, wide area network and related security services, thin client end-user device solution and associated managed services to implement and support the solution. It is expected that the solution provided will optimally deploy public cloud services and will include migration of email to a public cloud service such as Microsoft Office 365 or Google G Suite. The solution provided will be highly-resilient and should include appropriate disaster recovery and/or business continuity services.
Bidders should refer to the Technical statement of requirements (‘TSoR’) appended at Appendix 2 of this ITT for full details of V2C’s requirements and the services that the successful Bidder will be required to provide under the contract.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales website at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=94521
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver community benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The community benefits included in this contract are:
— V2C’s commitment to deliver ‘Community Benefit’ outcomes is designed to ensure that wider social and economic issues are taken into account when utilising procurement processes for contracts and the spending of public money,
— V2C has identified specific community benefit commitments required from the tendering organisation successful in this procurement process and considers these to be proportionate and relevant to the subject matter.
Note: Any community benefits a bidder proposes to offer will not form part of the tender evaluation, or affect the tender scoring.