Official UK procurement notice
Provision of 1st Line IT Helpdesk Support
Authority: FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe requirement is for a 24/7 Managed IT Service Desk.
Managed IT Service Desk to serve as the primary point of contact for owning incidents, addressing user requests, questions and providing a communications channel between other service management functions and the user community. In addition to these core functions, the service desk will have an active role in capturing change requests, maintaining 3rd party support contracts, managing access requests and all other ITIL functions.
Provide 1st line IT Support to support business employees (approx. 3800) with all IT Support requirements in office, at station or onboard train services.
Regular face to face account management meetings. Site visits to meet user stakeholders and understand the IT network Infrastructure.
Operating 24/7 - 365 days with core support hours required between 08:00 -18:00 Monday - Friday. This excludes Christmas and Boxing Day. Out of Hours Support cover required at all other times.
CPV: Information technology services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£900,000
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Aug 2021, 15:28 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Aug 2021, 15:28 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-018465- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02cf8fFind a Tender
- Review procedure
- no PQQ documentation will be available until shortly after the expiry of this Contract Notice.
- only suppliers shortlisted at the PQQ Stage will receive a copy of the Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 3 Sept 2021, 23:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Participation fee
- document
Timeline
2 Aug 2021 → 6 Sept 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published2 Aug 2021, 15:28 BST
- Submission deadline3 Sept 2021, 23:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected6 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- First Greater Western LtdReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.