Published date: 9 March 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: 4 April 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Networking software package - 48210000

  • Computer network services - 72700000

Location of contract

SE1 8WA

Value of contract

£600,000 to £1,000,000

Procurement reference

KCL-00001060

Published date

9 March 2018

Closing date

4 April 2018

Contract start date

1 June 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2021

Contract type

Service 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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

King's wired and wireless networks are all based on Cisco equipment. As part of the current Invitation to Tender and the associated requirement specification, there are several types of Cisco-related product/service that King's require:

- Maintenance and Supply
- Consultancy

Maintenance refers to the support of existing and new Cisco products that King's operate, and includes hardware and software maintenance, SWSS license management and renewal, break/fix, troubleshooting, Cisco TAC support for bug fixes, software updates, and on-site engineers.

Supply refers to the procurement of Cisco hardware, software, and license items, including pre-sales support, quotations, ordering, and delivery.

Consultancy refers to miscellaneous services relating to Cisco products that could include design work, engineering tasks, troubleshooting, advice, and other kinds of work package. The price, duration, effort etc. of this work would be agreed by the parties in advance.

The contract's initial period will be 3 years, extendable to 5.

More information

Links

Additional text

This opportinuity is open to Cisco Gold Partners only.

Qualified Suppliers are required to register and express interest via the University`s electronic tendering site at the following URL: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/kcl/

The University reserves the right to cancel the tender process at any stage. The University does not accept any liability for any cost incurred in tendering. Please note all submissions must be made electronically unless otherwise expressed in the tender documents. All submissions will be subject to the University`s conditions of electronic submission found at the following URL:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/purchasing/suppliers/etender.aspx

All tenders must be priced in sterling and payments under the Contract will be made in sterling.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Olya Spasova

Address

Waterloo Bridge Wing
Stamford Street
London
SE1 8WA
United Kingdom

Telephone

02078484432

Email

olya.spasova@kcl.ac.uk

Website

www.kcl.ac.uk