Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-12-08
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31000000 | 31700000 | 31710000 | 31712000 | 31712111
Estimated value: 5000000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-01-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The framework is for the provision of telecommunications and network services and can be used by the whole of the UK public sector and their associated bodies and agencies, the voluntary sector, charities and/or other private organisations acting as managing agents or procuring on behalf of the public sector delivering services of a public nature. The following services will be made available under 13 lots: data access; local connectivity; traditional telephony; inbound telephony; IP telephony; mobile voice and data; paging and alerting; video conferencing; audio conferencing; unified communications; radio; security and surveillance; and contact centres. The scope includes: services which provide the main functionality of a lot; associated technology, equipment and solutions and optional goods and services that enhance, supplement or support the delivery of the services; and services delivered over the public internet, private networks, the PSN and/or the HSCN. See VI.3) and bid pack.
Lot 1 Data Access Services, including Wide Area Networks (WAN) is for the provision of connectivity services enabling site-to-site or site-to-cloud interconnectivity.
a) Wide area connectivity for the provision of a managed or unmanaged point-to-point data-only connection.
b) Wide area connectivity for the provision of a managed or unmanaged point-to-internet/cloud data-only connection
The scope of this Lot includes technology, equipment and solutions that may be required in the delivery of the Primary Services of this Lot 1, including but not limited to:
h) network related security and access control solutions including but not limited to provision of security equipment;
ii) broadband routing and performance monitoring tools (including user self-test speed detection and reporting)
The Ancillary Services for this Lot 1 are optional Services that enhance or otherwise supplement or support the delivery and/or the functionality of the Primary Services and will be set out by the Supplier in their catalogue Service Offers or responses to a Further Competition.
Where the Buyer’s requirement spans more than one Lot they may conduct their competition across more than one Lot.
Buyers will be able to award specific Call-Off Contracts through two order procedures including direct award from catalogue and Further Competition.
i) When a Call-Off Contract is awarded by a Buyer without holding a Further Competition the maximum Call-Off Contract will not exceed five (5) years (60 months).
ii) When a Call-Off Contract is awarded by a Buyer in accordance with the Further Competition Procedure the maximum Call-Off Contract Period will not exceed a maximum Contract Period of up to ten (10) years (120 months).
Both order procedures allow the Buyer to decide the Initial Period and Extension Period provided that the total Call-Off Contract Period does not exceed the maximum permitted.
Electronic auctions may be held by Buyers using the Framework Contract in order to award specific Call-Off Contracts.
The conclusion of Framework Contract(s) will be on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender(s) for each Lot and not necessarily those tenders with the lowest price.


Award value: 5000000000