Published date: 28 January 2020
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
Networks - 32400000
Location of contract
East Midlands
Value of contract
£4,000,000
Procurement reference
LEICSCITY02-DN458791-19324602
Published date
28 January 2020
Closing date
28 February 2020
Contract start date
1 May 2020
Contract end date
30 April 2031
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
The Council seeks a suitably experienced organisation to supply Leicester City Council (LCC) with their own dark fibre circuits ("infrastructure") to provide connectivity between LCC sites rather than via a 3rd party network.
The purpose of the contract is to give LCC unilateral control and virtually unlimited network bandwidth scalability for the future to support the acceleration of the Councils digital vision. As an absolute minimum, the Council expects any solution to be capable of delivering reliable, resilient and continuous ultra-fast and low latency fibre connectivity.
The planning, design and construction of the network will be the responsibility of the Provider, who will further be responsible for all associated implementation and running costs.
The Council is not intending to have any responsibility for supporting the dark fibre network and thus the provider must provide its own maintenance programme to ensure the 24/7 operation of the network.
About the buyer
Contact name
Rebecca Cowan
Address
Bosworth House
9-15 Princess Road West
Leicester
LE1 6TH
England
Telephone
+44 1164541272
rebecca.cowan@leicester.gov.uk
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