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# Vodafone GCF Extension Contract - Further extension of the email relay and email filtering services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/vodafone-gcf-extension-contract-further-extension-of-the-email-relay-and-email-filtering-s-ocds-h6vhtk-0291d9). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service: "Vodafone GCF Extension Contract - Further extension of the email relay and email filtering services". 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:** [The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-minister-for-the-cabinet-office-acting-through-crown-com-GB-FTS-575)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Postal and telecommunications services, Software package and information systems
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0023
- **Awarded Value:** £3,300,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0291d9`

## 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/vodafone-gcf-extension-contract-further-extension-of-the-email-relay-and-email-filtering-s-ocds-h6vhtk-0291d9#tl-md)

## Description
The existing contract is for Vodafone provided Government Convergence Framework (GCF) services to be supplied from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021.   The GCF is the “intelligent core” of the Public Services Network (PSN) which is used for secure communication by numerous bodies across the public sector.  This extension will extend the email relay and filtering services (one of four lots) for use by those public sector bodies that still have a limited requirement for this legacy technology.  The new one year extension covers a period during which these bodies will transition away to new email services sourced from the open telecommunications and software markets.
The existing Vodafone GCF contract has four lots; Domain Name Server (DNS) services, email relay and filtering services, peer to peer service (to enable communication between PSN and other government networks) and professional services.  Only email relay and filtering services are proposed for extension.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 48000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The email relay service enables users of the PSN to communicate securely with each other and third parties via email.  Users comprise multiple public sector bodies across central government and the wider public sector (e.g. local government).  The em...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Vodafone GCF Extension Contract - Further extension of the email relay and email filtering services (active)
  - Award id: `002674-2021-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Vodafone Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-184630`
  - Value: £3,300,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Vodafone GCF Extension Contract - Further extension of the email relay and email filtering services (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,300,000
  - Signed Date: 06/03/2020

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002674-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-02-09T22:56:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T15:56:17.311Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0291d9