Published date: 19 February 2018

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


Closing: 20 November 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Internet services - 72400000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£247,000

Procurement reference

CHEAST001-DN304522-72195108

Published date

19 February 2018

Closing date

20 November 2017

Contract start date

15 December 2017

Contract end date

14 December 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Cheshire East ICT Services currently manage both Cheshire East Council (CEC) and Cheshire West and Chester (CWaC) Councils LAN and WAN infrastructure across the Cheshire footprint for all corporate and some school sites. This includes connectivity to the internet. Currently a 5GB Internet connectivity is provided under a contract with JaNET at the Chester University Riverside Campus site.

As part of the ICT strategy CEC, CWaC and Cheshire East ICT Services have chosen to implement a hybrid approach to cloud services. This will place a greater reliance on an internet service.

An options appraisal has been carried out and the agreed option to proceed with, is that the first phase of Resilient Internet Service is to concentrate on resilience for the full Office 365 suite (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online (including One Drive for Business) and in the future for Skype for Business), providing 99.99% availability for the O365 applications, inbound basic web hosting and outbound internet access. It will also provide resilience for in case of a Janet link failure.

We will be asking for prices and evaluating the quality aspects of each of these requirements and awarding to the Most Economically Advantageous Tender

Award information

Awarded date

5 January 2018

Contract start date

1 February 2018

Contract end date

31 January 2023

Total value of contract

£247,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The Networking People (NorthWest) Ltd

Address

Infolab21,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster.
LA1 4WA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ann Hope

Address

Westfields
Middlewich Road
Sandbach
CW11 1HZ
England

Telephone

+44 86595

Email

ann.hope@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Website

http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/