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# Smart Sound Connect Centralised Management

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/smart-sound-connect-centralised-management-ocds-h6vhtk-03357c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Plymouth City Council: "Smart Sound Connect Centralised Management". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Plymouth City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/plymouth-city-council-ons-e06000026)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Data network management and support services, Marine services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK41
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £230,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03357c`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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/smart-sound-connect-centralised-management-ocds-h6vhtk-03357c#tl-md)

## Description
To appoint a suitably experienced and qualified supplier to provide centralised management of Smart Sound Connect, a high throughput, low latency 4/5G Mobile private network to cover Plymouth Sound area, supporting marine trials of multiple use cases across marine autonomous vessels and marine research
PML Applications have already been appointed under an existing contract to provide full end-to-end design, implementation and management of the Smart Sound Connect 4G/5G and high speed mesh networks at a value of £145,000.
It is proposed under this VEAT Notice that this contract is extended to include responsibility for the full management and support for the contracted 27 use cases at a value of £85,000
Contract to run until 31st December 2023 with 5 year equipment legacy requirements

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 72315000, 98360000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK

- **Description:** Negotiated procedure without prior publication in accordance with Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii) –
negotiated procedure without prior publication of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015
Contract duration: Until 31st December 2023 with 5 year equipment ...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 011999-2022-21615-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **PML Applications Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-52352`
  - Value: £230,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 011999-2022-21615-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £230,000
  - Signed Date: 08/05/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F011999-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-05-09T13:32:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T22:38:00.315Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03357c