Official UK procurement notice
SD-WAN Connectivity and Enterprise LAN + WiFi
Authority: The Abbeyfield Society
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe supplier will provide a WAN solution that supports Abbeyfield’s digital transformation strategies by delivery of a highly available Wide Area Network with unified security, optimal application user quality of experience and meets its bandwidth requirements for each of its sites. Abbeyfield requires faster provisioning of new offices and more efficient changes to configurations and functions.
In addition, the qualified Network supplier will design, install and manage enterprise LAN switches, any cabling (minimum CAT6a) and WiFi Access Points to ensure seamless connectivity within all Abbeyfield sites.
CPV: Internet network · Local area network · Wide area network services
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value (£1,500,000 together) · win at most 2 of themLot #1SD-WAN ConnectivityRenewalPublished value£700,000
Abbeyfield are tendering for a qualified telecommunications carrier who can provide high-speed SD-WAN connectivity. Providers are encouraged to be innovative in their proposed solutions as to provide the most cost-effective solution while meeting all technical requirements.
Abbeyfield expect a reduction in the network running costs while at the same time increasing the bandwidth, application performance and availability using multiple inexpensive internet lines. Abbeyfield require the solution to provide SD-WAN, security, link balancing and WAN optimisation. This should reduce the footprint at each location and provide savings to the overall running cost of the enterprise WAN & Edge security.
Services procured under this SD-WAN RFP are an essential enabler for Abbeyfield’s future IT strategy and include the following:
1)Architecture - The solution must provide a Secure Cloud Enabled SD-WAN with underlay circuits.
2)Bandwidth - The Solution must meet the bandwidth requirements (as per the Abbeyfield Site and Circuit List document) for each site.
3)Performance - The Solution must have the ability to prioritise traffic for business applications based on real-time bandwidth and latency measurements.
4)Security - The Solution must provide integrated Next-Generation FireWall (NGFW) and Unified Threat Management (UTM) ability for every location.
5)Remote Access - The Solution must provide Secure Remote Access to the On-Prem and Cloud Resources hosted by Abbeyfield.
6)Scalability and Availability - The solution must be scalable to support a minimum of 100 sites can grow over the next five years.
7)Public IP Range - The solution must meet Abbeyfield’s current and future public IP address requirement
More details and specific requirements are captured in the attached documents for this notice. Additional information: To respond to this opportunity please click here: www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/PX46X2J79Q ↗
Lot #2Enterprise LAN Switches + WiFiRenewalPublished value£800,000
Abbeyfield are tendering for a qualified Network Supplier who can design, install and manage LAN switches, cabling and WiFi access points to all the Abbeyfield sites as stated with the requirements listed below. Suppliers are encouraged to be innovative in their proposed solutions as to provide the most cost-effective solution while meeting all technical requirements and Abbeyfield expect all the equipment to be procured, owned, managed and maintained by the candidate supplier throughout the duration of the contract.
The following are conditions which the supplier must provide for
- Local Area Network Switches
- Cabling & Access Point Installation
- Wireless Access Point (WAP) specific requirements
- WAP and Network Management
- LAN and WAP Policy Management
- LAN and WAP System Requirements
- AP Requirements
- AP Placement and Installation
More details and specific requirements are captured in the attached documents for this notice. Additional information: To respond to this opportunity, please click here: www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5EVMNZDU3N ↗
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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).
- Suitability
The suitability criteria are set out in a selection questionnaire ("SQ") instructions and scoring document which can be obtained from the address in I.1.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 16 Sept 2021, 14:15 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Sept 2021, 14:15 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-023052- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Details of the conditions are set out in the procurement documents. These will include conditions relating to service levels and service credits and/or right to terminate for less than minimum acceptable performance levels.
- Review procedure
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (as amended) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be started within 30 days beginning with the date when the aggrieved party first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. The Court may extend the time limit for starting proceedings where the Court considers that there is a good reason for doing so but not so as to permit proceedings to be started more than 3 months after that date. Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the contracting authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages or, where the contract award procedures have not been followed correctly, declare the contract to be “ineffective".
Publisher note: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.The contracting authority is subject the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. All information to which the Environmental Information Regulations apply will be dealt with in accordance with those Regulations. The right is reserved not to proceed or not to award a contract for the whole or any part of proposed procurement. Neither the contracting authority nor any person on whose behalf of whom this procurement is undertaken is to be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest or tendering for this contract. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-St-Albans:-Internet-network./6JP3N6KVRK To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/6JP3N6KVRK GO Reference: GO-2021916-PRO-18916930
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 18 Oct 2021, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
Timeline
16 Sept 2021 → 9 Nov 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published16 Sept 2021, 14:15 BST
- Submission deadline18 Oct 2021, 17:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected9 Nov 2021
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- See VI.4.3 belowReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria