Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-03-20
Buyer: Education Authority
Country: UK
Region: UKN06
CPV classification: 72500000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2025-03-31

Technical requirements: The Contracting Authority requires ICT services to replace its existing contracts for managed
Local Area Network services for post primary and special schools in Northern Ireland (known
as “Lot 3”) and managed Wide Area Network Services for all Northern Ireland schools
(known as “Lot 5”), together with the re-procurement of the Management Information
System for all schools in Northern Ireland.
The services required pursuant to this procurement process are to take forward the service
vision, by ensuring the continuity of existing services, covered in broad terms by the existing
contracts, while transforming these services over the lifetime of the new contract term. The
overall scope of the services can be summarised as follows:
— a fully integrated end to end service to meet the management/administration and
learning/teaching needs of educational establishments,
— ICT infrastructure and associated services for post primary and special educational
establishments,
— connectivity to, and provision of a range of online services for all educational
establishments. Prospective service providers should note that the intention is not simply to
replace the outgoing services on a like for like basis and that the concepts of local area (or
school-based) and wide area services, as previously understood and applied should not
constrain the bidders thinking and proposals regarding the overall architecture in light of
technology developments. The Contracting Authority will request proposals during the
detailed dialogue stage for the transformation of the learning platform and management
administration elements of the services but reserves the right to make a decision at that
stage on the inclusion or otherwise of the transformation of these elements within the scope
of the awarded contract.
The Contracting Authority requires ICT services to replace its existing contracts for managed local area network services for post primary and special schools in Northern Ireland (known as “lot 3”) and managed wide area network services for all Northern Ireland schools (known as “Lot 5”), together with the re-procurement of the management information system for all schools in Northern Ireland. The services required pursuant to this procurement process are to take forward the service vision, by ensuring the continuity of existing services, covered in broad terms by the existing contracts, while transforming these services over the lifetime of the new contract term. The overall scope of the services can be summarised as follows: — a fully integrated end to end service to meet the management/administration and learning/teaching needs of educational Establishments, — ICT infrastructure and associated services for post primary and special educational establishments, — connectivity to, and provision of a range of online services for all educational establishments. Prospective service providers should note that the intention is not simply to replace the outgoing services on a like for like basis and that the concepts of local area (or school based) and wide area services, as previously understood and applied should not constrain the bidders thinking and proposals regarding the overall architecture in light of technology developments. The Contracting Authority will request proposals during the detailed dialogue stage for the transformation of the learning platform and management administration elements of the services but reserves the right to make a decision at that stage on the inclusion or otherwise of the transformation of these elements within the scope of the awarded contract. The offer for the replacement services will also need to take account of publicly available ICT contracts (available to public sector bodies in Northern Ireland), such as Network NI. Whilst the Contracting Authority will not mandate the use of any such contract, it may seek to take advantage of them where they offer value for money.


Winner: Capita Managed IT Solutions
Award value: 33000000