Published date: 8 June 2021

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: 9 July 2021, 8am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Ethernet network - 32415000

  • Network components - 32422000

  • Network infrastructure - 32424000

    • Networking software package - 48210000

Location of contract

TR1 3XX

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

INT-TPC01

Published date

8 June 2021

Closing date

9 July 2021

Closing time

8am

Contract start date

20 July 2021

Contract end date

20 November 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Truro and Penwith College is a large tertiary college with two main campuses located in Truro and Penzance plus some smaller sites. The College also provides full IT services and connectivity to a partner (Callywith) College located in Bodmin. The network supports approximately 12,000 staff and students, 3,000 wired desktops 1,200 laptops and 300 wireless AP's which frequently see over 5,000 connected devices. The Penwith Campus typically has 20% of the overall student, staff and desktop count with most of the activity taking place on the larger Truro Campus. The College network has grown over the years and has been continually added to with the result that edge switches date anywhere between 2006 and 2020. These are primarily a mixture of Procurve and ComWare based HP devices with some Dell N series added between 2017 and 2020. In 2017, the previous HP 5400 cores were replaced with Dell S4000 series devices and the network has performed poorly ever since. The decision has now been taken to replace the entire network from Core to Edge with a consistent range of devices from a single vendor.

More information

Links

  • Tender notice
  • Additional information on how to apply for this contract

Additional text

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Guy Guerandel

Address

College Road
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 3XX
United Kingdom

Telephone

01872308450

Email

guyg@truro-penwith.ac.uk