Published date: 15 March 2017

Last edited date: 15 March 2017

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Awarded contract (published 31 May 2017)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Telecommunications network - 32412100

  • Wireless telecommunications system - 32510000

  • Repair, maintenance and associated services related to personal computers, office equipment, telecommunications and audio-visual equipment - 50300000

    • Telecommunications services - 64200000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£700,000

Procurement reference

OJEU-PROC/007/2017

Published date

15 March 2017

Closing date

17 February 2017

Contract start date

19 June 2017

Contract end date

18 June 2022

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?

Yes

Description

Provision, support and maintenance of communication lines for Havebury Housing Partnership, [Lot 2] and Freebridge Community Housing [Lot 1].
The Contract will be awarded to the MEAT, criteria of 60% Quality (Quality Questionnaire) and 40% Cost and is a restricted procedure.

Freebridge Community Housing own and manages close to 7,000 homes in West Norfolk. It works closely with
local authorities, agencies and community groups to meet local social housing needs and to provide wider
community services.
Our current communications is based around a point to point connection, leased lines and ADSL internet
connections (or FTTC where available). It has a data centre in the centre of King's Lynn and DR services are
provided at another location on the outskirts of town. It is starting to back up to Microsoft Azure and the strategy
is to use that as secondary DR. Azure also hosts the corporate website.

The Havebury Housing Partnership manages over 6,000 homes across Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and
Essex. It works closely with local authorities, agencies and other housing associations to meet local social
housing needs and to provide community services. It is now in a proof of concept phase with Microsoft Azure. Its
current comms is based around MPLS with a data centre in Manchester providing our cloud DR and hosting of
our web-facing services. It is planned that this arrangement would be replaced in March 2018, moving to simple
Internet connections.

More information

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About the buyer

Address

The Havebury Housing Partnership
Havebury House
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 3SP
England

Email

debra.mclean@havebury.com

Website

http://www.havebury.com