Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-01-26
Buyer: The Secretary of State for the Home Department, Crime and Policing Group, Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 32000000 | 32523000 | 45232332 | 45314000 | 48200000
Estimated value: 735800000 GBP
Award criteria: Service and technical, Price and commercial, Delivery performance, Risk, Overall cost effectiveness

Technical requirements: Service and technical
Price and commercial
Delivery performance
Risk
Overall cost effectiveness
The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) is a cross-government, multi-agency Programme sponsored by The Secretary of State for the Home Department to deliver the Emergency Services Network (ESN).
The ESN will deliver integrated critical voice and broadband data services to all 3 emergency services (3ES) and other users throughout GB (England, Wales and Scotland). These services require a mobile communications network capable of providing the full coverage, resilience, security and public safety functionality required by the 3ES.
The ESN will replace the existing Emergency Services Communication Services delivered under current service contract(s) across the 3ES and other users. The new service contracts have been awarded during 2015, with a target of achieving a planned commencement of service delivery during 2017 as the existing service contracts begin to expire.
The procurement was divided into 4 Lots, however Lot 4 has been discontinued (see OJEU Corrigendum ref: 2015/S 016-024719 dated 23.1.2015).
This Contract Award Notice is with regard to Lot 3 only (Lots 1 and 2 are the subject of separate Award Notices).
Lot 3 is for a supplier of Mobile Services (MS) to enable the delivery of mobile voice and data network services to the 3ES and other user organisations to support ESN. The Lot 3 (MS) supplier will be responsible for an enhanced mobile communications service with highly available full coverage in the defined Lot 3 area (including some in-building coverage); provision of highly available extended network coverage over Extended Area Services (EAS) telecommunications infrastructure, technical interfaces to Lots 2 and EAS; and the provision of optional services.
The Services include various specialist technical activities. EE have declared their intention to sub-let some of these elements to relevant specialists. It is intended that these sub-contracted Services account for in the region of 10 % of the total contract value.
The Home Office as Contracting Authority intends to put in place contracts for the ESN for use by or on behalf of itself and other UK public sector bodies in England, Scotland, and Wales (and their statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisation or organisational changes).
However, use does not denote that there will be direct contractual relations between such public bodies and contractors appointed to provide the services. The services are primarily intended for use by the following public sector bodies (as defined in the Public Contracts Regulations 2006) the Metropolitan Police Authority, Police and Crime Commissioners/Police Authorities, the Greater London Authority (or a functional body within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999), fire authorities, fire and rescue authorities and ambulance trusts/ambulance services. However, the services shall also be available for use by all UK public sector bodies (as defined in the Public Contracts Regulations 2006) with a public safety, crime prevention or security remit, including, but not limited to, Central Government Departments (in particular the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the Secretary of State for Health, the Scottish Ministers acting through the Scottish Government, and the Welsh Ministers acting through the Welsh Government and their Agencies and Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) (a list of Government Departments, Agencies and NDPBs can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations ), NHS bodies (i.e. NHS England, NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts and other NHS organisations including NHS Scotland and its organisations and Special NHS Boards in Scotland) (lists of such Authorities and Trusts can be found at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AmbulanceTrustListing.aspx ; http://www.wales.nhs.uk/catorgs.cfm#1; http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/Boards ) and Local Authorities (a list of such authorities can be found at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/AToZOfLocalCouncils/index.htm ). This includes all territorial and specialist police forces in England, Wales, and Scotland, including National Crime Agency, College of Policing and other law enforcement agencies, all Police and Crime Commissioners and Police Authorities in the UK, Fire and Rescue Services and NHS England. In addition the services may be made available to transport operators, utility operators, and charities that interact with public safety bodies.


Winner: The Welsh Ministers acting through the Welsh Government
Number of bids: 1