Official UK procurement notice
External Connectivity (WAN & Internet Services)
Authority: The Guinness Partnership (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGuinness require a contract for fixed line communications including:
- Data Centre Connectivity
- Wide Area Networking
- Internet Connectivity
A procurement strategy is currently being formulated with a view to the procurement of this contract during 2023/24.This Notice is a Prior Information Notice of a future contract opportunity. This is not a call for competition, or a request for you to express interest in bidding for work.
Organisations are invited to consider completing and returning information indicted in the soft market testing document linked with this Notice. Whether or not an organisation chooses to return any information will have no relevance or bearing on assessment of any future application to participate in a subsequent procurement process. Returning information will not be deemed by Guinness as a standing expression of interest for any future contract opportunity.
Organisations should continue to monitor the UK e-notification service Find a Tender Service for notices and the opportunity to submit an expression interest or tender for a notified contract opportunity.
CPV: Wide area network
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Guinness spend circa £360,000 +VAT per annum on Wide Area Networking and Internet ServicesPlanned
Guinness spend circa £360,000 +VAT per annum on Wide Area Networking and Internet Services.
Guinness operates across the majority of England. Details of the connection sites can be found in the soft market testing document linked to this Notice.
Guinness do not currently operate in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 11 Aug 2023, 14:14 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Aug 2023, 14:14 BST
- Authority reference
DN684001- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-023584- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03ef1eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
11 Aug 2023 → 24 Nov 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published11 Aug 2023, 14:14 BST
- Tender notice expected24 Nov 2023
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.