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.
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
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