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Voice, Video and Integration (VVI) services
Telecommunications services
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Ministry of Justice: "Voice, Video and Integration (VVI) services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | Ministry of Justice | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | complete No deadline published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | Not published |
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Ministry of Justice
Market Analytics
Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Ministry of Justice. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Competition Density
3.3Bids / Report
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate availablePayment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Coverage: 315 active published awards; 302 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityMinistry of Justice | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statuscomplete | Framework / DPSNot published | CompetitionNot published |
Above thresholdNot published | Legal basisNot published | Tender period startsNot published |
Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published19 Nov 2021, 22:45 GMT | Last source update19 Nov 2021, 22:45 GMT | Recurring procurementNot published |
ClassificationTelecommunications services | ||
Delivery area UK | ||
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02f8a9 | ||
What is being bought
Contract for the supply of voice, video & integration (VVI) services
What changed
From the official release history
- Status changed to complete
19 Nov 2021, 22:45 GMT - Official notice release published
19 Nov 2021, 22:45 GMT - Buyer information updated
19 Nov 2021, 22:45 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedStatus not publishedPublished valueNot publishedTo provide the following main areas of service: (i) the provision, management and maintenance of video and telephony services; (ii) the management and maintenance of the integration of WAN services and LAN services; (iii) the design and management of gateway services and IP addressing; (iv) local server rooms / communications rooms; and (v) the design and technical integration of video services, telephony services, WAN services and LAN services; and integration with other Services. Services may be removed from scope as they are transitioned to replacement suppliers or insourced.Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
19 Nov 2021, 22:45 GMT - Award active
Not published · Not published - Contract active
Signed 19 Nov 2021, 00:00 GMT · £105,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards Vodafone Ltd Not published · Not published · active |
Contracts Contract £105,000,000 · signed 19 Nov 2021, 00:00 GMT · active |
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
Ministry of Justice
Contracting authority GB-FTS-6365Documents (0)
Official links; attachments are not copied
No linked documents are published
Related procedures (0)
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published |
No-engagement rationaleNot published |
Procedure rationaleThe authority relies on Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) (Use of negotiated procedure without prior publication) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 namely: the services can only be provided by a particular economic operator, the incumbent supplier (Vodafone Limited), who has been providing the services forming the subject matter of this contract under a contract with the authority for the last 7 years eleven months which is due to expire on 09.12.21, because competition is absent for technical reasons, and no reasonable alternative substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement for the following reasons.
(a) No other supplier has the necessary technical knowledge/experience to provide the services, because:
(i) video traffic between the authority and other government bodies traverses the public services network (PSN). The authority cannot migrate away from the PSN until these other bodies have also migrated to new solutions as it is a closed system. For another PSN provider to provide the PSN link, intercommunity firewall rules and 3rd party allowed lists would require updating. Previously it has taken a minimum of 12 months for all 3rd parties to update their allowed lists with these timescales being outside the authority’s control. Migrating the PSN IP address ranges to another supplier’s network would have to be done simultaneously because IP ranges can only be in one place, presenting significant and unacceptable risks to service continuity. As PSN is due to close by 2023 the authority would also incur significant wasted costs by changing supplier given the short remaining lifespan of PSN;
(ii) many of the hardware components that are core to the services are hosted in Vodafone’s datacentres. A new supplier would have to i) design/implement a new environment, ii) re-route sub-contracted solutions through their own datacentres or a combination of these options, which would introduce a high level of risk to service delivery and substantial duplication of costs given PSN is due to close and would not therefore be a reasonable alternative/substitute; and
(iii) Vodafone has knowledge of the environment and complexities of how it inter-operates with other parts of the authority’s ICT environment, i.e. the WAN/LAN service, developed over the past 13 years. The integration gateway was designed with separate security domains to satisfy information assurance requirements at the time. This segregated environment means WAN traffic must be routed via the gateway to communicate, and only Vodafone can provide this gateway with the existing WAN/LAN service, until the WAN/LAN service is replaced.
(b) Even if it was theoretically possible that another supplier did have the necessary technical knowledge/experience, which the authority does not consider to be the case, it is estimated to take around 12 months to procure a replacement supplier and a further 18 to 24 months to complete a managed transition, whereas the services are required from 10.12.2021. |