Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-01-30
Buyer: Greater Manchester Combined Authority — Greater Manchester Police
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48800000 | 48810000: Information systems | 48820000: Servers | 72222200: Information technology planning services | 72300000
Estimated value: 17000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-03-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: On the 5.5.2017, Greater Manchester Combined Authority as the Contracting Authority for Greater Manchester Police, published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in the Official Journal of the European Union to provide advance notice to the open market of the Data Centre tender opportunity.
As per the PIN notice Greater Manchester Police is seeking for an appropriate supplier to transition and migrate its existing Data Centre services to a new virtualised infrastructure under a Managed Service contract.
GMP is committed is seeking to let a single contract to a single Supplier to provide a Managed Service covering the following requirements:
a) Design, delivery and management of transitions of all GMP services from the old Data Centre service to the new Service (moving all in-scope services to a virtual infrastructure);
b) Design, provision, management and support, up to and including the OS layer, of infrastructure including:
This Invitation to Tender (“ITT”) has been issued by Greater Manchester Combined Authority as the Contracting Authority for Greater Manchester Police. This is a OJEU procurement exercise using the Restricted Procedure (2 stage process), in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
The contract will also be open to be accessed by the following contracting authority: Trafford Borough Council.
It is expected that a maximum of up to 5 (Five) tenderers will be shortlisted and be invited to submit a tender. However, the GMP reserves the right to shortlist fewer or more suppliers, either due to the spread of scores or where there is another justifiable reason to do so.
This tender process is being conducted through the Bluelight e-tendering portal. In the interests of fairness, accountability and auditability, all communication regarding this tender must be made through the ‘Discussion’ facility of the Bluelight portal. No other methods of communication will receive a response.
The contract duration will be for a period of 5 years followed by an option to extend for a further 2 years on a 1+1 basis, subject to funding and contractor performance.
Bidders are strongly advised not to communicate (directly/email or during other site visits) with any other persons at GMP Police concerning this tender exercise. Bidders who fail to comply with this requirement, will automatically be excluded from participating with this tender and possibly other future GMP tender opportunities. All clarification correspondences must come via the Blue Light Portal.
Bidders are invited to study the requirements outlined in the tender documents and provide their best bid to meet the needs identified.
In accordance with Regulation 87 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (as amended) contracting authorities are obliged to introduce a “standstill” period of 10 days between selecting a winning bidder and entering into a binding agreement.

Eligibility requirements: As per the tender documents.

Award value: 17000000