Official UK procurement notice
Wightfibre Circuits - direct internet connection at St Mary’s datacentre
Authority: Isle of Wight NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description1 x 500Mbps direct internet connection at St Mary’s datacentre
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #11 x 500Mbps direct internet connection at St Mary’s datacentreAwarded
1 x 500Mbps direct internet connection at St Mary’s datacentre
May 2024 - April 2025 (with 12m extension possible to April 2026)
Cost includes whole life cost (12m + 12m).
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Nov 2024, 11:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2024, 11:16 GMT
- Authority reference
DN749397- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-035893- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04b43fFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
1 x 500Mbps direct internet connection at St Mary’s datacentre, May 2024 - April 2025 (with 12m extension possible to April 2026).
The supplier (Wight Fibre) has its own Island Infrastructure already in situ; any other supplier would depend on utilising Open Reach infrastructure to supply our requirements, which in itself carries a higher cost than is offered by Wight Fibre, whose infrastructure is already in place. A cost comparison with another provider was carried out with Wight Fibre as lowest cost, but with additional benefits such as monitoring of real time bandwidth and traffic usage. Wight Fibre’s offering also includes a large number of public IP addresses on two of the direct internet connections, upstream DNS mirroring, built in resilience, 24/7 365 days a year coverage for faults, monitoring, and reporting.
Continuity of supply of our connection(s) is of high importance and as well as the cost
effectiveness mentioned.
The Isle of Wight Council observed a 10-day standstill period which ended at
midnight on 04 November 2024.
Publisher note: Please note that a delay in the process has meant the award date was set after the contract start date (so award date has been stated here as being 31/04/2024).
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wight FibreSME | £12,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 035893-2024-1 · Wight FibreSME
- Signed
- 30 Apr 2024
- Value
- £12,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High Court of England and WalesReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Wight FibreAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.