Notice Information
Notice Title
17 170 Provision of a Secure Resilient Internet Connection
Notice Description
Cheshire East ICT Services currently manage both Cheshire East Council (CEC) and Cheshire West and Chester (CWaC) Councils LAN and WAN infrastructure across the Cheshire footprint for all corporate and some school sites. This includes connectivity to the internet. Currently a 5GB Internet connectivity is provided under a contract with JaNET at the Chester University Riverside Campus site. As part of the ICT strategy CEC, CWaC and Cheshire East ICT Services have chosen to implement a hybrid approach to cloud services. This will place a greater reliance on an internet service. An options appraisal has been carried out and the agreed option to proceed with, is that the first phase of Resilient Internet Service is to concentrate on resilience for the full Office 365 suite (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online (including One Drive for Business) and in the future for Skype for Business), providing 99.99% availability for the O365 applications, inbound basic web hosting and outbound internet access. It will also provide resilience for in case of a Janet link failure. We will be asking for prices and evaluating the quality aspects of each of these requirements and awarding to the Most Economically Advantageous Tender
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e36630e1-3331-4388-b74b-fe04bc0f7870
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/996601f9-13a7-400c-91b9-874a23aa99f7
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Other -
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72400000 - Internet services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £247,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £247,000 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 19 Feb 20188 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 20 Nov 2017Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 5 Jan 20188 years ago
- Contract Period
- 1 Feb 2018 - 31 Jan 2023 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CHESHIRE EAST BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Ann Hope
- Contact Email
- ann.hope@cheshireeast.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 86595
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SANDBACH
- Postcode
- CW11 1HZ
- Post Town
- Crewe
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD6 Cheshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD62 Cheshire East
- Delivery Location
- TLD North West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Cheshire East
- Electoral Ward
- Sandbach Town
- Westminster Constituency
- Congleton
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/996601f9-13a7-400c-91b9-874a23aa99f7
19th February 2018 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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