Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-11-06
Buyer: Southern Water Services Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 30200000 | 30230000 | 30236000 | 30237000 | 48000000
Estimated value: 12000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-11-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Southern Water will contract with a single service provider for the provision of colocation infrastructure, including:
This notice relates to the provision of IT infrastructure (hardware) and associated services (build). This will form part of the ongoing collocation facilities project at Southern Water, but is limited to the hardware and associated services only, not to include provision of collocated facilities or migration of current Southern Water applications.
For clarity, Southern Water will contract with a single Service Provider for the provision of colocation infrastructure, including:
The envisaged term of the collocation infrastructure (hardware) contract is to run for an initial term of 5 years, with an option to extend by a further period, or periods, up to 5 years (10 years total). Any extension taken will be associated only to the warranty and third level support of both the software and hardware.
All information can be obtained by reviewing the opportunity listing, and subsequent PQQ, on the Southern Water e-sourcing portal, bravo. Prospective tenderers should ensure that they have registered to the Southern Water portal, and register interest against Prj_976.
The envisaged term of the collocation infrastructure (hardware) contract is to run for an initial term of 5 years, with an option to extend by a further period, or periods, up to 5 years (10 years total).
All criteria is stated within the procurement documents, available for review on the e-sourcing portal.
PQQ response from service providers is subject to evaluation, where a score will be applied to set questions. Service providers will be ranked based on this score, and at the discretion of Southern Water, between 3 and 5 suppliers will be invited to tender.
The successful infrastructure partner whether being a single Contractor, prime Contractor (which may be an existing company or special purpose vehicle) or consortium, will, be required to be a single legal entity.
Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information: This procurement exercise will be conducted on the Bravo Solution e-procurement portal at: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/
Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through the portal as follows:
(c) access the listing related to this contract titled “colocation — Infrastructure and Associated Services" (Prj_976) and view details;
(iii) once you have expressed interest, please complete the PQQ. You must then publish your reply using the publish button;
(iv) for any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering help desk at. 0800 368 4850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk

Eligibility requirements: As described in the procurement documents.

Award value: 12000000