Published date: 28 October 2022

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 28 September 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Communications network - 32412000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£98,878

Procurement reference

tender_319976/1118572

Published date

28 October 2022

Closing date

28 September 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 October 2022

Contract end date

1 October 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

In line with Secure City Programme (SCP), WAN communications there is the requirement for camera sites communications links to be upgraded (FY 22/23) and other sites (FY 23/24). These require 100Mb/s upload connections on 100Mb/s bearers. The larger sites (Southwark Bridge) (FY 22/23);Blackfriars Bridge (FY 23/24) will require 1Gb/s upload connections on 1Gb bearers.

There will be a decommissioning of current circuits with replacement in order to realise benefits of SD-Wan over current legacy RS1000 analogue networks, such as monetary, scalability and control.

During the IT Category Board, 10/09/2020, it was requested through the AOB that a further pilot was to be carried out within the next few months to show a single, unified solution providing secure, seamless connectivity to all locations and all cloud-based resources and applications. Through reviewing the market, it was realised that with Barracuda devices are the only device on the market at the moment that provide the required unified connectivity with BT/CoLT telco lines. This is still the case now in FY22/23 and Barracudas are used throughout the IT estate not just on Secure City

We have received an 8% discount form Original suppliers passed from Barracuda to preferred supplier Fortem, where otherwise other suppliers would be 20% more expensive. On top of this we managed to secure c£8,000 saving

- 44 x T93 appliances with power supplies and 2Yr subs
- 4 x T93 appliances to be kept as SPARES (No subs or PSU)
- 10 x T200 appliances with 2Yr subs
- 1 x T200 appliance to be kept as a SPARE (No subs)
- 48 SFP cables for connections to Cameras

Award information

Awarded date

28 September 2022

Contract start date

1 October 2022

Contract end date

1 October 2024

Total value of contract

£98,878

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Address

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Mitchell Walker

Address

Guildhall
London
EC2P 2EJ
England

Email

Mitchell.Walker@cityoflondon.gov.uk