Published date: 20 December 2024

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: 21 January 2025, 11pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer equipment and supplies - 30200000

  • Local area network - 32410000

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

    • Data services - 72300000

    • Computer-related services - 72500000

    • Computer network services - 72700000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

STHOX001-DN756948-39209367

Published date

20 December 2024

Closing date

21 January 2025

Closing time

11pm

Contract start date

10 February 2025

Contract end date

9 February 2030

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District Council (the councils) are replacing the active network components of their offices and buildings, including all switching, wireless access points and security devices. The councils wish to move to a single cloud-managed platform for all sites and devices enabling management through a single dashboard.
The solution should include installation and configuration of the devices to enable the councils' network to support the migration to a Zero-Trust-Network (ZTN) using SD-WAN.

All sites support hybrid working with staff being able to work at home and within the office over a corporate LAN.
The councils' technology strategy is a cloud-first approach, and all main applications are either delivered software-as-a-service (SaaS), are planned to move to SaaS or be hosted in Azure. Productivity applications are provided via Microsoft 365. The councils have no main datacentre or physical centralised server-room. Each site will be connected to the internet via direct connection and will require network protection.

OUTLINE REQUIREMENTS

Solution must be managed through a single cloud enabled platform and provide single dashboard for unified management for switching, wireless and security appliances.
Modern deployment through zero-touch provisioning.
Network and wireless should support latest technology version and allow for future growth.
Network switches must:
• support stacking where more than one switch is being deployed in a comms rack.
• Provide PoE to support wireless access points and QoS to assist with voice and video network traffic.
• Switch ports to support multi-gigabit for wireless access points.
• Switches to support VLAN for network segregation.
Wireless access points must:
• be minimum Wifi-6E (802.11ax)
• support multi-gigabit ports.
• Be powered via PoE wherever possible.
Security Appliances must:
• support SD-wan and ZTN technologies.
• provide local DHCP, NAT, QoS and VLAN management services.
• support site to site VPN into MS Azure for each site.
Suppliers must provide a detailed price breakdown for:
a. Hardware for each site
b. 5 year enterprise licence and support
c. Installation and configuration for each site
d. Ongoing annual support for the duration of 5 year enterprise licence period

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About the buyer

Contact name

Andrew Lewis

Address

Abbey House
Abbey Close
Abingdon
OX14 3JE
England

Telephone

+44 7874893611

Email

andrew.lewis@southandvale.gov.uk

Website

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk