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# Royal Navy Museums Broadband Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/royal-navy-museums-broadband-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06f0cf). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Royal Navy Museums: "Royal Navy Museums Broadband Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £250,000. 2 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Royal Navy Museums](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/royal-navy-museums-gov-pb290)
- **Published Value:** £250,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 October 2026 at 17:00 BST
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Internet services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKN
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/royal-navy-museums-broadband-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06f0cf#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06f0cf`

## 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/royal-navy-museums-broadband-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06f0cf#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission method:** All clarification questions and submissions need to be sent to tenders@royalnavymuseums.co.uk

## Description
All existing broadband connections to Museum sites are provided by a single supplier. The individual Museum sites are currently interlinked via an MPLS network provided by the current supplier. Each site has a Juniper SRX300 router installed which is managed by the current ISP. The Portsmouth HQ site has a Juniper SRX340. Backup connections are also present at each site for redundancy, with a separate router installed and managed by the current ISP. The backup connection at the Portsmouth HQ site terminates into a separate building. As part of the MPLS network provided by the current ISP, all sites route through a cloud firewall and have a centralised internet breakout. We are provided visibility over the cloud firewall through an online portal which allows us to view and download firewall logs and add/edit/remove inbound firewall rules for our sites as required.
Museum IT infrastructure and services are centralised at the HQ site in Portsmouth. Other sites communicate with this infrastructure to access resources over the MPLS network. Multiple VLANs are in use across all Museums sites to support differing requirements. The Museum also has a presence in Microsoft Azure and an offsite datacentre, which is hosting a full Disaster Recovery infrastructure, but these do not form part of the existing MPLS network.
The broadband connection at the Portsmouth HQ site is currently shared between 6 separate businesses onsite, each with their own public IP address(es). The Museum also has requirements to route certain services using individual public IP addresses.
The current site connections are outlined in the document.
Royal Navy Museums is evaluating different broadband options available and as part of this procurement, would like to consider two technologies that we believe can deliver the requirements of the business; MPLS and SD-WAN.
As the Museum has been operating on an MPLS network for several years, we know that this technology can deliver the requirements. SD-WAN has previously been considered but never implemented for the Museum. The Museum is now in a position to evaluate its suitability to deliver the requirements, whilst assessing potential benefits and cost savings.
This procurement has been split into two lots, representing the separate considerations for MPLS and SD-WAN. To help the Museum make an informed decision, we would like to invite suppliers to respond to both lots and pitch solutions for both MPLS and SD-WAN. This will allow the Museum to assess the benefits, operating costs and overall suitability of the two solutions to help identify which is best able to deliver the requirements over the next 3-5 years. Whilst we would encourage suppliers to respond to both lots to help inform our decision, Royal Navy Museums recognise that this may not be possible for all suppliers. Therefore, if a supplier is only able to offer a solution for one of the lots, we would still welcome their response.
It should be noted that, following evaluation...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/royal-navy-museums-broadband-services-ocds-h6vhtk-06f0cf)

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: MPLS
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 72400000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKN
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £140,000
- **Description:** Royal Navy Museums currently operates on an MPLS network for broadband services as described in section 2 and is considering keeping this arrangement for the future. An MPLS network will need to provide inter-site connectivity for all Museum sites li...
- **Contract Period:** 21/10/2026 to 21/10/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 2: SD-WAN
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 72400000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKN
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £110,000
- **Description:** Royal Navy Museums is considering moving away from the current MPLS setup and implementing an SD-WAN network to interlink the individual sites. For the proposed SD-WAN deployment, we would not require any centralised internet breakout, firewalling or...
- **Contract Period:** 21/10/2026 to 21/10/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F083263-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-09-03T08:48:45.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T04:47:50.019Z
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