Published date: 29 January 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 27 January 2021, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Network equipment - 32420000

  • Wide area network - 32430000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£27,000

Procurement reference

BFDMDC001-DN522843-49245513

Published date

29 January 2021

Closing date

27 January 2021

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

1 February 2021

Contract end date

31 January 2024

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Award of contract without prior publication of a contract notice

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

City of Bradford MDC needs to urgently purchase the equipment as this is required for a Proof of Concept (POC) at a number of Council sites. As part of a bandwidth upgrade from 10MB to 100MB, this POC will ensure that the automation process for the switches at our MAN sites works successfully. The POC is for 7 switches over 4 Council sites and is needed urgently to test the proposed solution.There is an urgency to get this kit and start the POC stage as this needs to be all done for the 68 sites within 12 months as the existing switches are End of Life. There is a requirement that the hardware is compatible with the Council's datacentre and for us to be automated. The hardware needs to be Cisco or else it will not work with the investment the Council has already made for the Core networking. The existing solution is based on Cisco technology and therefore this solution needs to be compatible for auto provisioning of the switches.
These need to be purchased via a Cisco approved reseller and as Virgin Media are currently upgrading the Council network from 10mb to 100mb, then this will be done at the same time. This ensures an end to end functionality and rollout and if there are any issues / concerns then it will be Virgin Media's responsibility to resolve.


Award information

Awarded date

28 January 2021

Contract start date

1 February 2021

Contract end date

31 January 2024

Total value of contract

£26,745.31

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Virgin Media Business Ltd

Address

500 Brook Drive, Reading, RG2 6UU.

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Catherine Mullins

Address

Britannia House
Hall Ings
Bradford
BD1 1HX
England

Email

catherine.mullins@bradford.gov.uk

Website

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc