Published date: 14 January 2025
Last edited date: 14 January 2025
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Contract summary
Industry
Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting - 31000000
Electronic, electromechanical and electrotechnical supplies - 31700000
Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment - 32000000
Transmission apparatus for radiotelephony, radiotelegraphy, radio broadcasting and television - 32200000
Data-transmission equipment - 32260000
Digital transmission apparatus - 32270000
Television and radio receivers, and sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus - 32300000
Television and audio-visual equipment - 32320000
Networks - 32400000
Network equipment - 32420000
Wide area network - 32430000
Telecommunications equipment and supplies - 32500000
Communications equipment - 32570000
Data equipment - 32580000
Construction work - 45000000
Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work - 45200000
Electrical installation work - 45310000
Software package and information systems - 48000000
Networking, Internet and intranet software package - 48200000
Networking software package - 48210000
Information systems and servers - 48800000
Servers - 48820000
Repair and maintenance services - 50000000
Maintenance and repair of office machinery - 50310000
Maintenance services of telecommunications equipment - 50330000
Postal and telecommunications services - 64000000
Telecommunications services - 64200000
Telephone and data transmission services - 64210000
Telecommunication services except telephone and data transmission services - 64220000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000
Software programming and consultancy services - 72200000
Systems analysis and programming services - 72240000
System and support services - 72250000
Data services - 72300000
Data-processing services - 72310000
Internet services - 72400000
Provider services - 72410000
Computer network services - 72700000
Wide area network services - 72720000
Location of contract
BN7 2DZ
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
IT-555-45-JPS1846
Published date
14 January 2025
Closing date
31 January 2025
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
3 February 2025
Contract end date
4 February 2025
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?
No
Description
BACKGROUND TO THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
Surrey and Sussex Police currently connect approximately 500 vehicles to our Force datacentres using a third-party private APN. The number of vehicles connected is continuing to grow in line with business needs.
The solution, whilst reliable, does not provide the levels of flexibility we would like to make best use of available technology and connectivity paths.
We are therefore exploring alternative vendor offerings that will not only allow traffic to be securely transferred to and from our datacentres but also connect to cloud-hosted SaaS solutions through localised in-vehicle Internet breakout.
CURRENT SITUATION
The Force currently uses unmanaged routers within the vehicles, connecting services back to our datacentres over a private-APN. The Force would like to maximise productivity and connectivity options from the vehicles, creating a secure office on wheels work environment that can benefit operational policing.
The existing private APN enables ANPR reads to be sent to our datacentres as well as lookups of data from national systems. A single provider SIM within the router provides the cellular connectivity to the mobile provider edge, before handing off to IPsec tunnels to protect the data from provider edge, into our datacentres.
All traffic needs to traverse the APN, and there is no way to securely send data outside of the APN to leverage the capability of cloud-hosted Force and third-party managed solutions.
The Force also do not have the connectivity in-place to allow for efficient management and updates of in-vehicle systems, which currently require vehicles to return to workshops for hardware to be removed, updated, and reinstalled.
OUR AIMS - WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE
We are seeking a solution to replace our existing unmanaged routers within approximately 500 fleet vehicles. Vehicles would gradually be migrated in-line with business need and as new vehicles are introduced and old, decommissioned.
As part of this RFI the Force wishes to understand the following:
o Outline costs for budgeting and planning purposes.
o Identification of revenue and capital costs.
o Gain a conceptual design for different solutions available based on the requirements outlined in this RFI. Within the design an architectural diagram and description of components should be added.
o Understand potential timelines around migrating to a new solution, bearing in mind the desire of the Force to gradually transition to the new service to minimise operational impact.
o Learn how pricing is structured so requirements can be created around a future catalogue.
o Build an understanding around the markets price vs quantity.
o Under how realistic certain requirements are. For example, is a 4-hour SLA possible for managed components of the service.
Deadline for responses is 31st January 2025 at 12:00 (Noon).
Please note...
More information
Links
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- https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sussexpolice/aspx/
- Additional information on how to apply for this contract
Additional text
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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No
About the buyer
Contact name
Paige Ward
Address
Malling House
Lewes
Sussex
BN7 2DZ
UK
Telephone
+44 01273470101
Website
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