Official UK procurement notice
Managed WAN Services 2025 - New contract for existing Wide Area Network
Authority: Independent Office for Police Conduct (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA procurement reset, and the introduction of a new supplier would pose an unacceptable risk of service disruption, critical configuration conflicts, and a breakdown in operational continuity due to the need to reverse-engineer and replace a live, highly customised and deeply embedded technical solution.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Connectivity for each of our sites including 2 data centres, 6 regional sites and…Cancelled
Connectivity for each of our sites including 2 data centres, 6 regional sites and cloud connectivity providing the IOPC with the ability to use essential services securely ranging from internally hosted applications through to M365 and SAAS hosted services.
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The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Price
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
- Cancelled
- 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
- 5 Aug 2025, 11:12 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Aug 2025, 11:12 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-046030- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05814dFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
- Deep Integrated and Bespoke Solution:
Redcentric successfully designed, migrated and implemented IOPC’s comprehensive network and data centre solution. This includes managed site-to-site and client VPNs, resilient internet access, critical firewall configurations, and continuous monitoring. These services are fully integrated across the IOPC Farnborough and Corsham Crown Hosting data centres, supporting both production and disaster recovery environments. The solution is uniquely tailored to IOPC’s specific architecture and operational requirements.
- Maintaining Operational Resilience and Continuity
Operational resilience is fundamental to IOPC’s services and is intrinsically embedded within the existing solution. Redcentric established automated failover between our data centres, configured secure MPLS connectivity, and implemented live replication services, all of which are actively supporting IOPC’s business-as-usual operations. Transitioning these highly complex and interconnected services to a new provider would necessitate dismantling and revalidating live configurations, significantly increasing the risk of widespread system outages or degraded service performance. Any switch would also risk the loss of critical configuration knowledge and jeopardise existing fail-safe mechanisms due to the intricate nature of the setup.
- Incompatibility with Existing Infrastructure and Investment
The IOPC has made substantial investment in equipment and service integrations that are intrinsically linked to RedCentric systems and operational frameworks. introducing a new supplier at this stage would require reverse-engineering a live, bespoke solution. This would not only incur significant duplicative costs for infrastructure and re-implementation but also render parts of the existing estate incompatible or redundant. Such a change would undermine the value of the solution already delivered, severely disrupt essential business operations, and delay the realisation of long-term efficiencies envisaged in our original disaggregation strategy.
- Unacceptable Risk of Service Disruption:
A procurement reset, and the introduction of a new supplier would pose an unacceptable risk of service disruption, critical configuration conflicts, and a breakdown in operational continuity due to the need to reverse-engineer and replace a live, highly customised and deeply embedded technical solution.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.