Published date: 20 June 2018

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: 13 July 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Mobile telephones - 32250000

  • Mobile-telephone services - 64212000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£150,000 to £400,000

Procurement reference

GC19-002

Published date

20 June 2018

Closing date

13 July 2018

Contract start date

10 September 2018

Contract end date

9 September 2022

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

The Growth Company (GC) and its subsidiaries are tendering for the provision of The Provision of Mobile Telephone Hardware & Voice, Data & Associated Services and invites suppliers to submit a Selection Questionnaire (SQ) to participate in this tender process.

GC is at an exciting stage in our Group wide approach to our information technology and communications environment and we are looking to contract a mobile telephone provider to join GC in the successful delivery of our connectivity and agile working strategy. We aim to transform the way we work and communicate across the Growth Company and continue to evolve our approach to ensure our communication technologies remain agile and fit for purpose, provide full integration with GC applications and infrastructure, whilst ensuring the solutions remain cost effective and provide value for money.

The successful bidder will be contracted for a 2-year period, with an option to extend for two further 1 year periods.

You are hereby invited to submit a Selection Questionnaire (SQ) for the above services. The SQ documents contain key instructions and information for submitting your SQ, and provides an overview of the tender process and key requirements.

You are required to make your SQ submission via the GC In-tend e-tendering platform. To use the Growth Company In-Tend site, you are required to complete a basic registration as a supplier on the In-tend Supplier Platform at the following web address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/manchestergrowthcompany/aspx/Home.

Please note that all mandatory fields (highlighted in yellow on the In-Tend Portal) must be completed in order to register your organisation.

Once registered, you must log into the system, express your interest in the opportunity on In-Tend and automatically download the SQ documentation. Your SQ submission will be made on the In-tend Portal.

Submissions must be submitted in the required format and be returned by 12:00 Noon Friday 13th July 2018.

Any submissions received after this time will not be accepted. This is automated on the In-tend platform therefore you are encouraged to allow adequate time to upload your submission documentation.

Please do not email your tender response, any submissions received by email will be rejected.

If you have any questions about this process, please use the In-tend platform to correspond with GC.

More information

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About the buyer

Contact name

Kelly Edwards

Address

Lee House,90 Great Bridgewater Street
MANCHESTER
M15JW
England

Telephone

0161 245 4734

Email

kelly.edwards@growthco.uk

Website

www.growthco.uk