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# Tender for Local Connectivity Services 2023 - 2026

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/tender-for-local-connectivity-services-2023-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-038abc). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council: "Tender for Local Connectivity Services 2023 - 2026". Published status: unsuccessful. Framework Ceiling: £800,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 13 Jan 2023, 15:00 GMT. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** UNSUCCESSFUL (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/sandwell-metropolitan-borough-council-ons-e08000028)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £800,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 13 January 2023 at 15:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Communications cable with multiple electrical conductors, Networking, Internet and intranet software package, Telecommunications cable, Telecommunications cable and equipment, Telecommunications equipment (+1 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKG37
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-038abc`

## 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/tender-for-local-connectivity-services-2023-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-038abc#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost.co.uk%2Fsandwellmbc)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/tender-for-local-connectivity-services-2023-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-038abc#participate

## Description
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (the Council) is a unitary, metropolitan authority located in the West Midlands. SMBC is made of 6 towns (West Bromwich, Oldbury, Tipton, Wednesbury, Smethwick, Rowley Regis). SMBC employs over 4500 people and the offices of the council are carried out over 70 sites within the borough.  The Borough Council of Sandwell (the Council) wishes to invite interested parties ("Tenderers") to participate in a Tender exercise to establish a single supplier for the provision of SMBC 21006 Local Connectivity Services to the Council ("the Invitation to Tender")

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 32500000, 32520000, 32521000, 32522000, 32572100, 48200000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Estimated Value:** £800,000
- **Description:** Please refer to the ITT Documents
- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2023 to 31/03/2026

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 018418-2023-1 (unsuccessful)

  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F018418-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-06-28T13:37:09.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T04:32:15.952Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-038abc