Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-04
Buyer: University of South Wales
Country: UK
Region: Central Valleys
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 32412110 | 72400000
Submission deadline: 2017-04-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University of South Wales is taking advantage of its unique position, building on the foundation of a new identity and striving for a new way of delivering its services to students. The University is looking to secure a provider for all the Internet Services for Halls of Residence — the current student residence internet provision contract is due for renewal in July 2017.
The University of South Wales is taking advantage of its unique position, building on the foundation of a new identity and striving for a new way of delivering its services to students. The University has over 30 000 students, and, to that end Accommodation Services Vision is that ‘All students and halls users will easily be able to access a reliable, high speed, internet connection wherever and whenever they wish to, within the halls of residence boundary’. Accommodation Services Aims:
1. All students and conference guests will be able to use multiple devices without compromising speed or reliability of service.
2. All students and conference guests to have a seamless service while moving from area to area within the halls of residence boundary.
3. All students and conference guests to have a secure, high-speed network to enable our user to access academic resources, emails and social networking sites etc.
5. To provide accommodation services with a communication platform to enable us to easily contact residents/users with any relevant information.
It is our intention to award a contract to 1 provider for all the internet services for halls of residence users. It is anticipated that any contract resulting from this process will include the installation and or upgrade and maintenance of new and existing equipment necessary to deliver the service (both wired and wireless) as well as provision of the service itself. The current internet provision contract is due for renewal in July 2017. A key requirement is that the proposed service can be implemented to provide a seamless continuation of service; internet provision must be available to the students and external guests at the Halls of Residence throughout the year. Implementation planning must take this into account.
Please be advised there is a PQQ documentation requirement for completion which is attached to this notice.
— Suppliers are invited to attend the University of South Wales during the tender period for the purpose of clarifying their understanding of the needs of the University. This exercise will take the form of an open suppliers meeting of a maximum of 2 hours when the University's Evaluation Panel will attempt to answer any points of clarification.
— Following the open suppliers meeting the University anticipates that any further clarifications of the requirements can be undertaken via email.
— Where issues of clarification arise, which are relevant to more than one supplier, University responses will be sent by e-mail to each and every supplier.
— The meeting is arranged for Thursday 16.3.2017 at Treforest Campus. Suppliers are requested to advise who will be attending the site visit by contacting via e-mail: procurement@southwales.ac.uk
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=63399.
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:
As part of the tendering process the University will be looking at ways that even more value may be obtained and would like to seek community benefits from this tender. Examples of the kind of benefits / opportunities that we would like to see are, for example, e.g. lectures, guest speaker slots, scholarships or perhaps student placements or internships.