Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-23
Buyer: GEANT Limited
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 300000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2016-05-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The framework agreements are to enable pan-European coverage, although Economic Operators are welcome to offer solutions that are only available on a national or multi-national basis due to the adoption being driven through National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
An NREN is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country as described at: http://www.geant.org/About/NRENs/Pages/NREN_Compendium.aspx
A NREN has a defined role and limited scope in terms of its user-base and the geographic territory in which it operates, i.e. a single country.
Each listed NREN will make the tender results solely available in the country where it operates in, to be adopted by the research and education institutions which make use of the services provided by the NREN. These institutions have a (joint) ownership of or contractual relationship with the NREN.
All listed NRENs provide services to research and higher education institutions in their respective countries.
These research and higher education institutions are organisations established by law, accredited or registered by government or public authority, for the purpose of education, science, research, development or public service.
In countries where the NREN serves a broader user-base than Higher education institutes and Research institutes, these institutional categories or named institutions are provided at: http://www.geant.org/Services/Storage_and_clouds/Pages/Tender.aspx which leads to a web page on the NRENs' website. On this web page, the NREN defines their market by 1 of the following descriptions:
For the avoidance of doubt the entities listed on this OJEU notice, the research and higher education institutions in their respective countries and the entities identified at http://www.geant.org/Services/Storage_and_clouds/Pages/Tender.aspx are able to benefit from the framework agreements resulting from this procurement. Over the 4 years of the framework, this list is likely to change and Contracting Authorities who are eligible to be connected by an NREN shall also be considered eligible to use the framework.
Higher education institutes provide services in the field of higher education, as defined by national law. This includes private and public higher education institutions, irrespective of the composition of funding and management bodies.
As described at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/5735241/EC-30-12-534-EN.PDF/ffb0b7c9-bf5e-4696-984f-a05b135fe5a3
Higher education applies to academic programmes of study that may be entered by students holding either an appropriate school leaving certificate from an upper secondary school or other relevant professional qualifications or approved prior learning and/or prior experience. Providers may be universities, universities of professional studies, higher education institutions, colleges, polytechnics, etc.
Research institutes are organisations which undertake creative and systematic work in order to increase the stock of knowledge — including knowledge of humankind, culture and society — and to devise new applications of available knowledge.
As described at: http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/Frascati-Manual.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research
This tender is part of the GEANT GN4 Phase 1 (GN4-1) project. GEANT (the GEANT Project) is a collaboration between 40 European Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and joint European organisations. An NREN is a specialised Internet service provider, dedicated to supporting research and education needs within its country. The Research and Education community within each country relies on its NREN to advise and guide in adopting IT and to provide the right solutions. NRENs participating in the GÉANT Project collectively support the Research and Education community in Europe (10 000 Institutions and more than 50 000 000 users) providing for its use:
The GEANT Project has an objective to leverage network connectivity, identity management and other established services to help accelerate the adoption of cloud services and remove barriers for the NRENs and their Institutions, hereafter referred to as the Customers.

Eligibility requirements: Candidates' personal situation will be assessed on the basis of information provided in response to the Tender. This procurement will be managed electronically via GEANT's e-Procurement platform where all tender documents can be found. To participate in this procurement, participants must 1 st be registered on: www.geantprocurement.net Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS numbers (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at www.geant-procurement.net Once you have registered at www.geant-procurement.net a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement. Candidates' economic and financial capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the Tender documentation. Candidates' technical capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the Tender documentation.
Candidates' economic and financial capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the Tender documentation.
Candidates' technical capacity will be assessed according to the criteria set out within the Tender documentation.