Notice Information
Notice Title
Education Village Academy Trust - Managed Service
Notice Description
This procurement is all about identifying a single supplier to provide a fully outsourced managed service to the Trust. At the sole discretion of the Trust any future schools that the Trust may incorporate into the Trust will also be added to the ICT contract. Any additional schools will co-terminate to the end same end date of the initial contract. Further details regarding timescales are noted below but in summary this is advertised as a maximum 5 year service with start and end dates as follows: * Service start date - 21st February 2022 (First Day of Spring Half Term) * Service end date - 20th February 2027 The new Managed service provider will also deliver a range of technology and change management projects to go ahead as soon as possible to both stabilise, address historic under investment in ICT and move to a predominantly cloud/off-site environment. It is envisaged the main part of this will be complete by the end of the Summer of 2022. Going forward there may well also be opportunity to include wider communications infrastructure into the deliverables under the same contract - The FTS advertisement takes note of this. The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include, but not be limited to; * strategic advice and direction to the Trust regarding ICT * a core 50 week service * service desk * local staffing that bidders deem necessary to deliver the SLA * responsibility for design, specification, installation and management of all ICT infrastructure * supply of goods and services based on an agreed Best Value (BV) approach * management of all ICT against an agreed SLA * management of 3rd parties * relevant monitoring, management, patching and reporting * training - technical and curriculum as necessary * expectation that the provider will drive innovation * risk registers and inventory management * collective partnership targets aligned to the Trusts objectives * probable integration and upgrade of the communications and security infrastructure Bidders should note the following; * The Trust will provide a standard contract as part of the ITT Pack * There will be a requirement for TUPE - only from the Trust Further details about the solution requirements will be provided to those bidders who are shortlisted to receive the ITT pack.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This procurement is all about identifying a single supplier to provide a fully outsourced managed service. At the sole discretion of the Trust any future schools that the Trust may incorporate into the Trust will also be added to the ICT contract. Any additional schools will co-terminate to the end same end date of the initial contract. Further details regarding timescales are noted below but in summary this is advertised as a maximum 5 year service with start and end dates as follows: * Service start date - 21st February 2022 (First Day of Spring Half Term) * Service end date - 20th February 2027 The new Managed service provider will also deliver a range of technology and change management projects to go ahead as soon as possible to both stabilise, address historic under investment in ICT and move to a predominantly cloud/off-site environment. It is envisaged the main part of this will be complete by the end of the Summer of 2022. Going forward there may well also be opportunity to include wider communications infrastructure into the deliverables under the same contract - The FTS advertisement takes note of this. The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include, but not be limited to; * strategic advice and direction to the Trust regarding ICT * a core 50 week service * service desk * local staffing that bidders deem necessary to deliver the SLA * responsibility for design, specification, installation and management of all ICT infrastructure * supply of goods and services based on an agreed Best Value (BV) approach * management of all ICT against an agreed SLA * management of 3rd parties * relevant monitoring, management, patching and reporting * training - technical and curriculum as necessary * expectation that the provider will drive innovation * risk registers and inventory management * collective partnership targets aligned to the Trusts objectives * probable integration and upgrade of the communications and security infrastructure Bidders should note the following; * The Trust will provide a standard contract as part of the ITT Pack * There will be a requirement for TUPE - only from the Trust Further details about the solution requirements will be provided to those bidders who are shortlisted to receive the ITT pack.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-02e672
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024323-2021
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72400000 - Internet services
80100000 - Primary education services
80200000 - Secondary education services
80400000 - Adult and other education services
80500000 - Training services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £3,200,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £3,200,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 30 Sep 20214 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 22 Oct 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- EDUCATION VILLAGE ACADEMY TRUST
- Contact Name
- Geoff Chandler
- Contact Email
- geoff.chandler@moxton-education.com
- Contact Phone
- +44 1400272408
Buyer Location
- Locality
- DARLINGTON
- Postcode
- DL1 2AN
- Post Town
- Darlington
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLC North East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLC3 Tees Valley
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLC33 Darlington
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Darlington
- Electoral Ward
- Haughton & Springfield
- Westminster Constituency
- Darlington
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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