Published date: 5 September 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 4 October 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Mobile telephones - 32250000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£35,000

Procurement reference

2019/02

Published date

5 September 2019

Closing date

4 October 2019

Contract start date

1 November 2019

Contract end date

31 October 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Specification - St Helens Chamber is seeking a provider to supply mobile phone connections and data connections. We are content to have pricing from any of the big four networks. We currently use bundled minutes and data and find this works well for us as it is easy to budget for and keep track of. However we are content to be offered a solution based on both bundled minutes and data, or pay as we use. Our current provision is provided by Vodafone. Our current contract includes 68 voice and 48 data connections, unlimited minutes / texts and a data pool of 100GB. We find this is a good fit for our current use and on an average month use approx 80GB of our data pool. We require 70 mobile phone connections all requiring voice and data. We also require 50 data only connections for our fleet of IPad's. Note these numbers may be subject to change at the point of signing the contract. Please base pricing on 70/50. A flexible billing platform is essential - we would like to be able to view information such as, how much data we are using and how many minutes people are using. It must be easy to swap names assigned to numbers and set up general usage alerts etc. We also require flexibility on the contract to be able to add and remove connections when necessary. After the tenders have been submitted and scored, we may invite shortlisted tenderers in for a presentation stage.

Term of Appointment

The service provider will be appointed initially for a term of 2 years commencing Friday 1st of November 2019. Subject to satisfactory annual performance approved by the IT Manager, there is the possibility of being reappointed for a further 2 year term.

More information

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Tender Timeline

Deadline for submission of questions (4pm deadline) - Friday 20th September 2019
Questions answered by St Helens Chamber - Tuesday 24th September 2019
Return of Tender submission 4PM - Friday 4th October 2019
Notification to Short-listed tenderers (if applicable) - Wednesday 9th October 2019
Tenderer presentations (if applicable) - Wednesday 16th October 2019

It is the Chamber's intention to award the contract by Friday October 18th. However if we have reached a decision sooner than this, we will notify accordingly.

About the buyer

Contact name

Dave Ball

Address

St Helens Chamber
Salisbury Street
ST HELENS
WA101FY
England

Telephone

01744 742000

Email

purchasing@sthelenschamber.com

Website

www.sthelenschamber.com