Official UK procurement notice
5G Mobile Private Network - PIN for Pre-procurement market engagement
Authority: Digital Catapult (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe purpose of this PIN is to advise all interested suppliers of Digital Catapult's intention of a future procurement for 5G Mobile Private Network.
Digital Catapult has entered into a 5 year project with other 7 partners to deploy a private 5G network and
run a technology and innovation acceleration programme in Northern Ireland.
This pre-market engagement and the potential future procurement process specifically relates to a turnkey
solution and support until Nov 2026 (or until end of the program) for 5G Mobile Private Network (5G MPN)
at two adjacent sites located in Northern Ireland.
Through this pre-market engagement process, Digital Catapult seeks to understand the turnkey solutions readily available in the marketplace to meet its current requirements; potential issues and limitations; realistic timescales for the service provision and delivery at Northern Ireland; clear R17 upgrade roadmap.
Our intention is to procure a single contractor capable of meeting all our requirements, and a future
procurement exercise shall be run in the next months under the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
This pre-market engagement will help us to better understand the market and to help with specification and tender documentation development for our future tender.
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is issued solely for the purpose of conducting supplier pre-market engagement. Interested parties will not be prejudiced or advantaged by any response to this document, to the PIN, or by questions raised or lack thereof to them, or
attendance to the supplier pre-market engagement event.
This PIN does not constitute a call for competition.
CPV: Networks
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #15G Mobile Private Network (5G MPN) which is based on the 3GPP standards Release 16 and…Planned
5G Mobile Private Network (5G MPN) which is based on the 3GPP standards Release 16 and upgradable to Release 17 during the expected four year (or until Nov 2026) lifetime of the project.
For the purpose of this pre-market engagement please consider “5G MPN” is a collection of 5G Core (SA), 4G Core (LTE-M and NB-IoT), 5G NG-RAN (gNB) & 4G RAN (eNB), suitable network infrastructure, security and compute.
We are looking for a turnkey solution that includes features and functionalities, key advantages, and anticipated enhancements of their 5G Stand Alone (5GSA) and 4G private network solution.
To achieve this, we are looking for a solution provider, who shall design and build indoor 5G and 4G MPN (Mobile Private Network) to be deployed at two sites in Northern Ireland. It is expected to be a commercial grade (with a reference of previous deployment) turnkey solution for 5G and 4G MPN.
The solution provider should have to supply all the equipment, software and related services, which include but are not limited to physical installation, commissioning, testing and optimization to meet the agreed technical capabilities along with all necessary documentation and training.
Our intention is to procure a single contractor capable of meeting all our requirements, and a future procurement exercise shall be run in the next months under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. Additional information: Full details in regard to this PIN and the planned pre-market engagement can be found on the additional document attached to the PIN notice on www.mytenders.co.uk ↗
Interested Suppliers can register their interest, access the document and also ask questions by accessing the PIN notice at www.mytenders.co.uk ↗
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Jun 2022, 08:55 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Jun 2022, 08:55 BST
- Authority reference
P2022-086- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-016084- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-034579Find a Tender
Publisher note: Detailed document describing this future opportunity and the envisaged timelines is attached to the PIN notice at mytenders.co.uk The interested suppliers are encouraged to carefully read the document and if interested to register their interest. If after reading the document a supplier decide to withdraw their interest they are free to do so. All suppliers that registered and did not withdraw their interest by 21 Jun will be further contacted and will receive an invitation link for the pre-engagement event currently scheduled for 22 Jun. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders Web Site at https://www.mytenders.co.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=226529. (MT Ref:226529)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.mytenders.co.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Jun 2022 → 27 Jul 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published13 Jun 2022, 08:55 BST
- Tender notice expected27 Jul 2022, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.