Published date: 1 February 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: 19 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

B1 2ND

Value of contract

£0.01

Procurement reference

2018-WMGC-IT01

Published date

1 February 2018

Closing date

19 February 2018

Contract start date

29 March 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2020

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

West Midlands Growth Company Ltd (WMGC) is the area's strategic marketing partnership, which focuses on three business areas (i) investment, (ii) the visitor economy and (iii) strategic marketing.
The company is funded by the public and private sectors, and acts as an economic development and promotions agency undertaking long term Service Level Agreement contracts. Clients' examples include: West Midlands Combined Authority and its constituent members; the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) & six major universities in the West Midlands
Alongside this, WMGC also is commissioned on a project by project basis by clients across the Midlands areas. These can range between consumer and business activity, across sectors and geographic markets - regional, domestic and international, with more focus on the latter two territories.
For more information please visit - www.wmgrowth.com

WMGC I.T. aims to deliver a highly agile workforce; staff must be able to work anywhere, anytime. Additionally we require one point of contact for all IT related issues.

The West Midlands Growth Company is situated on the ground floor in Baskerville House. The office is let out to a number of tenants one being Birmingham City Council who run their own network infrastructure. There are a considerable number of services hosted in the Microsoft Azure platform. These consist of SharePoint, Skype for Business, Office 365 and Dynamics for CRM. The traditional file shares, office, document management system and finance applications can be accessed via Citrix which is hosted via a cloud based network environment. The system appears to be working well for the business as it promotes mobile working and enables users to use a number of different devices / platforms.
There are two server rooms on the ground floor one for each wing of the building, these are linked together with 12 copper uplinks and 1 fibre optic patch cable
All suppliers must visit and register interest via the In-Tend system prior to submitting the tender.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home


About the buyer

Contact name

Paul Jones

Address

Broad Street
BIRMINGHAM
B12ND
England

Telephone

0121 202 5115

Email

paul.jones@wmgrowth.com