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Published 2 Aug 2021, 14:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Managed Network Operations Centre.

Official notice

Authority: FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED (Public body)

ServicesNegotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Published estimate£560,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 3 Sept 2021

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provide Network Operations Centre responsible for technical support & management of all network infrastructure including MPLS, Direct Internet Access, Data Centre, and hardware support (break fix) for network equipment hosted within Data Centre, Office, or Station locations. To include but no limited to Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Corporate & Guest WIFI and VPN's.

Core Technologies to support will include:

i. Checkpoint Firewalls

ii. Meraki Wireless

iii. Cisco ISE

iv. Cisco Switches

v. Silver Peak SD-WAN

vi. zScaler Cloud Web Filtering

vii. IaaS Networking (AWS / Azure)

Core Support Hours 08:00-18:00 excluding Christmas and Boxing Day with Out of Hours Support covering all other times. 24/7 P1/P2 Incident Resolution via Major Incident Management Process and proactive alerting on critical systems and services.

Service will support business employees (approx. 3800) with all IT connectivity support requirements in office, at station or onboard train services. Service should incorporate promotion of Self Service, Intelligent Monitoring and Automation throughout with use of the First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Limited ServiceNow Instance for incident management.

CPV: Information technology services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1RenewalPublished value£560,000
Extensions: An option for a further period of up to 1 year.Variant bids: not allowed

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, 14:36 BST
Last source update
2 Aug 2021, 14:36 BST
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-018450
Classification (CPV)
Information technology services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+3 moreSouth West (UKK)Wales (UKL)Scotland (UKM)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02cf80 Find a 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
  1. Notice published
    2 Aug 2021, 14:36 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    3 Sept 2021, 23:00 BST
  3. Invitations to tender expected
    6 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic bodyRailway services 4th Floor Capital House 25 Chapel Street, London, UK, NW15DHContact email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • First Greater Western LtdReview body Swindon

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.