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# Keystone Academy Trust ICT Managed Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/keystone-academy-trust-ict-managed-service-ocds-h6vhtk-02b64e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** KEYSTONE ACADEMY TRUST: "Keystone Academy Trust ICT Managed Service". Published status: active. Published Value: £1,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Jul 2021, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [KEYSTONE ACADEMY TRUST](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/keystone-academy-trust-coh-07788995)
- **Published Value:** £1,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 1 July 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive procedure with negotiation
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Primary education services, Secondary education services, Training services
- **Delivery Location:** UKF
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/keystone-academy-trust-ict-managed-service-ocds-h6vhtk-02b64e#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b64e`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/keystone-academy-trust-ict-managed-service-ocds-h6vhtk-02b64e#tl-md)

## Description
The Keystone Academy Trust (KAT) is a Trust of 7 Lincolnshire Primary schools 
The Trust is characterised by the fact that at this stage of the Trusts development all schools are in broadly rural market towns, north of Peterborough but south of Lincoln.
The existing KAT schools are currently supported by a single outsourced ICT provider.   This contract has been in existence for some years but has now drawn to a conclusion and will finish on the last day of the Autumn Term 2021.
Going forward - This procurement
This procurement encompasses a full outsource of the ICT service for the Trust schools and Head office (Currently based at Bourne Westfield School) to a single supplier.  At the sole discretion of the Trust any future schools that the Trust may incorporate into the Trust will also be added to the ICT contract.  Any additional schools will co-terminate to the end same end date of the initial contract.   
Further details regarding timescales are noted below but in summary this is advertised as a maximum 5 year service with start and end dates as follows: 
•	Service start date - 20th December 2021 
•	Service end date - 19th December 2026
The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include all equipment and service regarding ICT, including but not be limited to;
•	strategic advice and direction to the Trust regarding ICT
•	24hrs a day 365 days per year monitoring and management service
•	a core 42 week onsite service with pro-active and re-active visits
•	service desk 
•	local staffing that bidders deem necessary to deliver the SLA
•	responsibility for design, specification, installation and management of all ICT infrastructure
•	supply of goods and services based on an agreed Best Value (BV) approach
•	management of all ICT against an agreed SLA
•	management of 3rd parties
•	relevant management, patching and reporting
•	training - technical and curriculum as necessary
•	expectation that the provider will drive innovation
•	risk registers and inventory management
•	collective partnership targets matched to the objectives of the Trust
The ITT will also require the Strategic ICT partner to provide an education complaint filtering service to the schools.    This will be detailed further in the ITT but bidders should assume that compliance with e-safety / PREVENT duty and IWF standards will be required, as will filtering at both school level and remote mobile users with a school / Trust owned device.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 80100000, 80200000, 80500000
- **Delivery regions:** UKF

- **Estimated Value:** £1,500,000
- **Description:** The Keystone Academy Trust (KAT) is a Trust of 7 Lincolnshire Primary schools 
The Trust is characterised by the fact that at this stage of the Trusts development all schools are in broadly rural market towns, north of Peterborough but south of Linco...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F011996-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-05-28T12:52:36.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T20:47:45.639Z
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