Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-14
Buyer: Cambridgeshire County Council
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 32400000 | 32430000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 45000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-07-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Cambridgeshire County Council wishes to appoint a Provider to provide Wide Area Network (WAN) and Wi-Fi services to the organisation. The Provider shall be expected to undertake:
The initial contract will last for a period of 6 years and will take the form of a framework agreement, under which individual requirements for each site will be specified and priced according to a schedule of rates agreed as a result of this tender process. It is difficult to predict the exact value of this contract as the Authority's property portfolio is likely to vary over the contract term, but it is estimated that the total value will not be less 20 000 000 GBP or greater than 45 000 000 GBP.
Cambridgeshire County Council is dependent on network connectivity to function efficiently and the increased reliance on digital communications and transactions has increased this dependency over recent years.
— To reduce the cost of network connectivity for public sector partners via economies of scale achieved through taking a shared approach to network connectivity across a geographic area;
— To act as an enabler for delivering more joined up public services with the shared network facilitating shared service arrangements, shared buildings and new service delivery models.
Each partner initiated their own call-down contract against the framework. The contracts have a co-terminus end date of 23.6.2018.
The County Council intends to build on the success of CPSN with a new partnership to be called EastNet, in recognition that the CPSN membership now includes organisations in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. The County Council will act as the lead authority to ‘stand up’ a 6 year Framework for all partners to able to initiate their own call down contracts for up to 7 years for the following key network connectivity:
This Framework is open to: Partners/other organisations delegating services/functions to LGSS; County, Unitary, District, City, Borough, Metropolitan Councils within Cambridgeshire and/or Northamptonshire; Educational establishments within Cambridgeshire and/or Northamptonshire; Wider public sector bodies within Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the Contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the Contract is entered into. Such additional information should be requested from (refer to address in part I.1). If an appeal regarding the award of Contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Chapter 6) provide 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). Any such action must be brought promptly. Where a Contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the Contract has been entered into the Court may order the ineffectiveness of a Contract where serious breach have occurred in addition to any fine, the Court may instead provide for alternative penalties, either contract shortening, fines or both.


Award value: 45000000