Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-08-19
Buyer: YPO
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48220000 | 48221000 | 48732000: Data-security software package | 50312300 | 50312310
Estimated value: 400000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: YPO are looking for providers to be appointed onto a framework agreement for the provision of data centres, maintenance, security and cloud hosting services. The framework is designed to meet the needs of all public sector organisations which includes YPO’s internal requirements.
This is a list of proactive and reactive maintenance of either an on or off premise data centre we are looking for suppliers who can provide either onsite or offsite or both and would form part of an ongoing maintenance regime. maintenance should follow manufacturers guidelines and current legislation. the list is indicative but not exhaustive. some on premise datacentres may not require this full regime this will be detailed by customers in the further competition.
This lot is for a range of suppliers to support the hardware within the racks on the off or on premise datacentre or both. This lot looks for a number of services and suppliers but welcomes suppliers who can support multi vendor equipment. How this support is provided is down to the suppliers service offering and customer specification. This lot is not designed for the sole purpose of purchasing of hardware.
The design solution is based on customer specification or requirement. This lot covers on and off premise solutions and we are looking for suppliers to provide on premise or off premise or both.
Audit services according to customer requirement and scope. This lot covers on and off premise solutions and we are looking for suppliers to provide on premise or off premise or both. Please specify which services you can supply.
This lot covers on premise and off premise solutions and we are looking for suppliers to provide on premise or off premise or both.
We are looking for build and installation suppliers on this lot. Please specify which services you can supply. How this solution is provided is down to the supplier service offering and customer specification.
Workplace recovery for people when access is denied for any reason this will also include business continuity testing of these situations/scenarios to ensure the workplace staff can recover and connect to the technology and use internal systems of the organisation at another location in case of disaster or denial of access to a working site.
Suppliers must be able to work within this market specifically on the volume and support required by this sector. Looking for backup, storage, security, hosting solutions and support for a low number of users and servers in a primary or high school environment or a similar sized public sector organisation.
Colocation providers must be able to provide all the services listed below as a minimum but also offer some as part of a customer requirement/specification.
We are looking for a number of suppliers who can provide all of the below security services to provide customers with an end to end service.
Network connectivity services to be provided to support the datacentre solution on premise and off premise or both.
YPO are purchasing on the behalf of other contracting authorities. Please see the below link for details: https://www.ypo.co.uk/about/customers/ojeu-permissible-users.aspx. YPO will incorporate a standstill period at the point of notification of the award of the contract is provided to all bidders. The standstill period will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, and provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).


Winner: 2bm Ltd
Award value: 400000000
Number of bids: 7