Official UK procurement notice
Field Operations and Maintenance Services Framework
Authority: DIGITAL MOBILE SPECTRUM LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDMSL is to manage a tender on behalf of the mobile network operators (EE, Telefonica, Three and Vodafone, collectively the "Contracting Organisations") to appoint a supplier who is able to provide field operations and maintenance services for mobile telecoms base station sites. Each of the Contracting Organisations will be a signatory to the Field Operations and Maintenance Services Framework Agreement.
Neither DMSL nor the Contracting Organisations are contracting authorities. This tender is being conducted voluntarily under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR") as call-offs awarded under the framework will be contracts subsidised by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) within the meaning of Regulation 13 of the PCR.
The aim of the procurement is to appoint suppliers who are able to provide field operations and maintenance services to support mobile telecom base station sites that are funded under the Shared Rural Network ("SRN") programme.
Call-offs may be awarded by the MNOs or their build organisations.
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations · Telecommunications-infrastructure maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1DMSL is to manage a tender, on behalf of the Contracting Organisations, to appoint…Planned
DMSL is to manage a tender, on behalf of the Contracting Organisations, to appoint suppliers to a Field Operations and Maintenance Services Framework, to provide field operations and maintenance services to support mobile telecom base station sites that are funded under the SRN programme.
Services could include:
- Passive and active maintenance,
- Planned preventative maintenance,
- Reactive maintenance,
- Supporting services, and
- Site support Additional information: The procurement is expected to be published on the 8th September 2023. Registrations for potential suppliers will be opened at that time. This PIN is for information only to inform the market and to help potential bidders prepare.
No further documents are available at this time; the procurement documents will be released at the procurement launch.
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
- Services
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Aug 2023, 11:02 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Aug 2023, 11:02 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-022282- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03ebf3Find a Tender
Publisher note: The requirement will be to provide field operations and maintenance support to the Total Not Spot (TNS) mobile mast sites and the SRN equipment that has been installed on the Home Office's Extended Areas Services network (EAS) sites. The requirement is to provide passive and active infrastructure maintenance of up to 300 TNS sites located in remote areas of Scotland and circa 290 EAS sites that will require active infrastructure maintenance in remote locations within England, Wales and Scotland. Support will need to cover the different technologies that all 4 MNOs are currently deploying as part of the SRN programme, including a passive preventative maintenance regime, reactive maintenance and liaison with 3rd party suppliers at sites when required.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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- Participation fee
- document
Timeline
1 Aug 2023 → 8 Sept 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published1 Aug 2023, 11:02 BST
- Tender notice expected8 Sept 2023, 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.