Published date: 30 October 2023

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: 30 November 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Network system - 32427000

Location of contract

CV6 6NY

Value of contract

£1,300,000

Procurement reference

CF-1975500D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

30 October 2023

Closing date

30 November 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

8 February 2024

Contract end date

7 February 2029

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust will be tendering for the supply and provision of a new network for their Metropolitan LAN due to aging infrastructure. The high-level requirement is for:

New core architecture to operate as a fabric for 125 sites including two data centres.
Maintain support for existing core and data centre switches
Bring into support all edge switches
Reduce complexity of the incumbent design
Increase security and simplify management of the new solution
Simplified provisioning of edge devices
Flexible network to meet agile business requirements
Enhanced alerting, reporting and analytics
Maintain connectivity for the server infrastructure
Support for technologies:
IoT
VoIP
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Office
Setup a model site
Complete SAT / UAT
Training
Migration Support

Connectivity is mainly dark fibre around the distribution and half of the edge sites. The remaining edge sites are connected by MPLS networks on a HSCN COIN and a private MPLS.

The solution and services will be procured through the Crown Commercial Service's framework - Network Services 3 (RM6116), Lot 2A.

We are anticipate releasing the procurement tender closing on Thursday, 30th November 2023. As such we are inviting all those suppliers currently listed on Lot 2A register with the Trust's procurement portal, 'Health Family Single e-Commercial System' (Atamis). Details of which are included in this notice.


More information

Additional text

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at:

Phone: 0800 9956035

E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk


About the buyer

Contact name

Constantin Anghelache (RYG)

Address

Wayside House
Coventry
CV6 6NY
GB

Email

canghelache@4c.co.uk