Official UK procurement notice
Barts Network Managed Services
Authority: Barts Health NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo provide, manage and maintain a resilient, reliable and secure network (LAN and WLAN based on the SDA-enabled Cisco design) for all staff at Barts Health whether on an acute site, outpatient site, operational site, out in the community or from home.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Services for planning, delivering, operating, managing (including security),…
Services for planning, delivering, operating, managing (including security), supporting and monitoring the on-premise local area network infrastructure (LAN) and/or its assets. Including but not limited to fixed and wireless devices, routers, switches, firewalls, fibre optic equipment etc). This may take the form of individual services and/or a Network Operations Centre - NOC.
Exclusions are telephony, mobile voice and data services, video-conferencing, audio- conferencing services, integrated communications and wide area network provisioning and connectivity.
Services to be delivered for:
- 5 large sites of 1000+ users
- Core Network components - 20+
- Edge/Access Switches - 500+
- Wireless Access Points - 2000+
- Operating and supporting a Cisco Enterprise Agreement across wired and wireless estate - 5 years + experience
- Operating and supporting a Cisco SDA network including 801.x, Trustsec, posture checking on end user devices Additional information: Price is not the only award criterion.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Dec 2022, 13:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Dec 2022, 13:17 GMT
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-036628- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-039467Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
In October 2017, the Trust commenced a procurement transformation programme to invest between £48m to £69m over five years in IT infrastructure. A number of programmes have been completed to transform the infrastructure, including the replacement and upgrade to a Software Defined network.
During the period of 2023-2027, the Trust will continue its transformation journey to achieve patient releasing benefits and complete the procurement process of up to £25m for hardware, licenses and services related to network.
The Trust has a contract with Block Solutions Ltd. to provide software, hardware and services over ICT network assets covering the five mains hospital sites and other administrative sites till July 2024.
The Trust intends to split the above contract into two parts from 2023 onwards. Software and hardware procurement for the 2023-2027 period will be covered by a competitive tender exercise due to increased scope and additional economic benefits. The network manged service element is intended to be awarded to the incumbent Supplier for continuity, stability and various economic and operational benefits for a 5-year period to Block Solutions with an estimated value of £5.9m without competitive tendering.
The Trust considers this new contract represents value for money having benchmarked operating fees for network managed services against those offered to other NHS Trusts.
This will also generate significant savings for the Trust in retaining those services with the incumbent provider by not incurring procurement costs (estimated to be approximately £140K) and also avoiding the expenditure of funding services from both the incumbent provider and new provider during the transition period (estimated to be in the region of £200K).
The retention of Block Solutions in a network managed services role will provide stability, efficiency and continuity in the operation of the network for the Trust to deliver its health services to the public during this period of acquisition and integration of new hardware assets and licenses.
The intension of the Trust is to award and enter into a contract after observing a 10 day standstill period which expires on the 9th January 2023.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block Solutions LimitedSME | £5,999,686 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 036628-2022-1 · Block Solutions LimitedSME
- Signed
- 28 Dec 2022
- Value
- £5,999,686
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Block Solutions LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.