Published date: 28 July 2016

This notice was replaced on 28 July 2016

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 9 December 2016)

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.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Disaster recovery services - 72251000

  • Data network management and support services - 72315000

  • Data storage services - 72317000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£310,000

Procurement reference

HHT - IT production environment and disaster recovery managed service

Published date

28 July 2016

Closing date

25 August 2016

Contract start date

19 December 2016

Contract end date

18 December 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Halton Housing Trust (HHT) are a not for profit housing association, who own and manage 6,700 homes in the Cheshire towns of Widnes and Runcorn. HHT's vision is to 'deliver high quality and excellent services for all'. Its' mission is to 'provide high quality housing services with a social conscience'.

HHT is seeking bids from service providers to participate in a tender for the provision of an IT production environment and disaster recovery (DR) managed service. This PQQ will be used to shortlist approximately 6 bidders to be invited to submit an ITT.

The outcome of the tender process will be a single contract with a single service provider. The contract will be an initial 3 years with 1 annual option to extend by a further 12 months, up to a maximum 4 years total contract term. The anticipated contract award date is estimated to be during December 2016. The contract will be available to HHT and all subsidiaries both current and future.

Full details of the required service can be found within the tender documents and the service specification included within the Supporting Information section of the PQQ.

More information

Links

Additional text

Submissions are to be submitted through the Cirrus Purchasing eTender system only.

About the buyer

Address

Daresbury Point, Green Wood Drive, Manor Park
Runcorn
WA7 1UG
England

Email

tenders@cirruspurchasing.co.uk