Published date: 17 July 2024

This notice was replaced on 17 March 2025

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

Awarded contract (published 17 March 2025)

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

  • Network cabling - 32421000

  • Optical-fibre cables - 32562000

  • Optical-fibre cables for information transmission - 32562100

    • Optical-fibre cables for data transmission - 32562300

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£150,000 to £250,000

Procurement reference

C4N82539426

Published date

17 July 2024

Closing date

24 July 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2024

Contract end date

31 August 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

SITA is releasing this "Rapid" request for proposal (RFP) for London Heathrow approved resources and require commercials for rate cards covering Network infrastructure at London Heathrow as a Site.

Service on behalf of SITA

The Service Provider should be acting as SITA towards SITA customer (Heathrow Airport Limited) when delivering the Service.


Service Requirements

There are a number of mandatory requirements and necessary tools to operate at Heathrow as a supplier, see below:

1. They must be a Heathrow infrastructure approved supplier/installer; in our case they will need the following:

a. The supplier must be approved by the PIAB (Physical Infrastructure Advisory Board) to obtain this approval the supplier must previously obtain the following:
i. CommScope (Heathrow approved cabling brand) certified company
ii. CommScope certified Engineers
iii. Airside passes
iv. Airside authorised and insured vehicles.
v. Minimum of ESR1 certified Engineers.
vi. Engineers commercially inducted.
vii. CSCS card or equivalent.

b. With all the above the supplier will need to be part of the Heathrow framework agreement with Anixter to be able to purchase the required Heathrow branded materials to carry out campus installations.

c. At least 1 of the engineers onsite per team must be a Black hat they must be:

i. SSSTS (Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme) or SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme) certify in order to meet Heathrow Health & Safety requirements.

d. IPAF Certified to operate working at height equipment

Specifically looking for Resource day rates for the below roles:

Senior project manager
Project manager
Project co-ordinator
Senior solution designer
Solution designer
Senior Telecoms engineer
Project Deployment Engineer
Cabling Implementation Engineer

More information

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Aamna Ahmad

Address

252-254 Blyth Road
Hayes
UB31HA
UK

Telephone

07725576390

Email

aamna.ahmad@sita.aero