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Dark Fiber Maintenance

Networks
Scotland (UKM75)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: University Of Edinburgh: "Dark Fiber Maintenance". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityUniversity Of EdinburghScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for University Of Edinburgh. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.3Bids / Report
60.5% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 230 active published awards; 205 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityUniversity Of Edinburgh
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published11 Dec 2024, 15:44 GMT
Last source update11 Dec 2024, 15:44 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNetworks
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM75)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04c739
What is being bought
The University of Edinburgh has a large and disparate estate which relies on connectivity to the university network via dark fiber. This contract is for the maintenance of dark fiber and does not include installation.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    11 Dec 2024, 15:44 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    11 Dec 2024, 15:44 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    11 Dec 2024, 15:44 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    The University has a large and disparate estate which relies on connectivity to the university via fiber cables. The connectivity is essential for learning and teaching, research, security, door access control and building management. This procurement is for the maintenance and lease of existing dark fiber cables for an initial period of 12 months, with two optional extensions of 12 months. Additional information: Please note - as this procurement is an NCA, no quality weighting was required however the system will not allow for this to be null. This procurement is for an initial period of 12 months and includes the option to extend by two further periods of 12 months.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    11 Dec 2024, 15:44 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 2 Dec 2024, 00:00 GMT · £349,577
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Jisc
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£349,577 · signed 2 Dec 2024, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
electronicBids: 0 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromEU: 0 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromNonEU: 1 (lot 1)
smeBids: 0 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

University Of Edinburgh

Contracting authority GB-FTS-2023
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  • University Of Edinburgh
    buyer

    Charles Stewart House, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, UKM75, EH1 1HT
    suzie.toole@ed.ac.uk

  • Edinburgh Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court
    reviewBody

    Sheriff Court House, 27 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LB

  • Jisc
    supplier

    3rd Floor, One Castlepark, Bristol, UKK11, BS 2 0JA
Documents (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe fiber connections includes those that were installed at the Universities request to connect two specific locations, and those installed directly by the University as part of the EasMAN (Metropolitan Area Network), which the university ran for the East of Scotland and are now maintained by Jisc. The cost of the fiber installations has already been incurred and this solely relates to the maintenance. Changing supplier of these fibers would incur additional installation costs for every dark fiber connection. Additionally, there are some locations which can only be delivered by JISC due to requiring a resilient link which is configured to match the primary link allowing traffic to be re-routed seamlessly. The University require the fiber network connections to be provided by one supplier otherwise there would be disproportionate technical difficulties in the operation and maintenance of the service with multiple varying policies to navigate and different escalation paths and contacts. Additionally, the University require a consistent way of monitoring security and service alerts. If there were to be multiple providers of dark fibre connections, this would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in the operation and maintenance of the network as the University would be required to navigate multiple alerting and monitoring systems, different account management and technical and cyber security escalation paths. Jisc provide an over-arching and integrated service for all of the University’s data connectivity. Splitting out the dark fiber contracts would result in additional complexity across technical, security, and account management functions. If there was to be a break in this service then it would impact the internet connection for the entire university through loss of resilience as well as cut service to over 2000 student bedrooms plus significant areas of the University including Western General and Easter Bush campuses plus other key buildings