Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-01-20
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30000000 | 30100000 | 30191400 | 30200000 | 30210000
Estimated value: 6500000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service as the contracting authority has put in place a pan-government collaborative framework agreement for the supply of commodity technology goods and associated services for use by UK public sector. There are 4 lots in total, for the detailed description please refer to the Specification. (Framework Schedule 1).
Associated services are summarised below (note — associated services can only be ordered with goods).
For a detailed description of the requirements please refer to the Specification (Framework Schedule 1).
This lot is aimed at suppliers who have the capability to provide hardware requirements, including but not limited to: end user devices, infrastructure hardware, consumables and peripheral equipment with associated services.
Suppliers will have the ability to provide extended product warranties; support; upgrade and maintenance services associated with products purchased; hardware configuration; imaging devices (utilising Buyer’ pre-owned or separately procured software licences where applicable); delivery to desk/server room; installation; consignment stocking and deliveries as required; project management of implementations e.g. estate refreshes; provision of management information reports to buyers; technical support; on-site warranty repairs (as required); and loaning test devices.
For a detailed description of the requirements please refer to the Specification (Framework Schedule 1).
This lot is aimed at Suppliers for software, who have the capability to supply a full range of commercial and open source commodity off-the-shelf software, software licenses and associated commoditised software services.
Suppliers will have the ability to provide (not limited to) warranties; including but not limited to; extended product warranties; repairs and bug fix warranties in addition to that, the supplier shall manage such product returns and replacements as appropriate. This includes third party relationship management across the provision of such warranties.
For a detailed description of the requirements please refer to the Specification (Framework Schedule 1).
This lot is aimed at Suppliers of commoditised IT products and solutions that are capable of meeting specific protective, information assurance requirements.
For a detailed description of the requirements please refer to the Specification (Framework Schedule 1).
Section V of this notice for Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 has the option ‘The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators’ selected. Please be advised that:
— this option has been selected for administrative purposes only – to facilitate the publication of the details pertaining to all successful economic operators for each lot.
The value provided in Section II.1.5) is only an estimate. We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this framework.
The duration of the framework agreement will be a maximum of 4 years, with the first term being 2 years, with a further possible extension of 2 (two) 1-year periods.


Winner: ACS Systems UK Ltd
Award value: 6500000000
Number of bids: 62