Notice Information
Notice Title
Inclusive Multi-Academy Trust - ICT Managed Service
Notice Description
The Inclusive Multi Academy Trust was formed in November 2016 and is currently made up of three schools: Beechfield School, Cherry Tree School and Laurance Haines School. The Trust has aspirations to roughly double in size over the next 5 years or so. Our schools work together with shared leadership, expertise, resources and efficiencies and deliver an excellent education within a loving and nurturing environment. We see ourselves as a central community hub and strive to provide equal access to education, opportunities, resources and support for all. In essence, this procurement is all about identifying a single supplier to provide a fully outsourced ICT 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. In terms of the managed service this is advertised as a 60 month contract with a maximum 5 year managed service with start and end dates as follows: Service start date - 1st September 2025 Service end date - 31st August 2030 The new Managed Service Provider may also be required to deliver a range of technology and change management projects The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT for the Managed Service will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include, but is not limited to; strategic advice and direction to the Trust regarding ICT a term-time core service, incorporating on-site staff/visits as necessary 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 in school support for any integration or upgrade of the connectivity, communications and security infrastructure
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Inclusive Multi Academy Trust was formed in November 2016 and is currently made up of three schools: Beechfield School, Cherry Tree School and Laurance Haines School. The Trust has aspirations to roughly double in size over the next 5 years or so. Our schools work together with shared leadership, expertise, resources and efficiencies and deliver an excellent education within a loving and nurturing environment. We see ourselves as a central community hub and strive to provide equal access to education, opportunities, resources and support for all. In essence, this procurement is all about identifying a single supplier to provide a fully outsourced ICT 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. In terms of the managed service this is advertised as a 60 month contract with a maximum 5 year managed service with start and end dates as follows: Service start date - 1st September 2025 Service end date - 31st August 2030 The new Managed Service Provider may also be required to deliver a range of technology and change management projects The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT for the Managed Service will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include, but is not limited to; strategic advice and direction to the Trust regarding ICT a term-time core service, incorporating on-site staff/visits as necessary 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 in school support for any integration or upgrade of the connectivity, communications and security infrastructure
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04d613
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002522-2025
- 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
30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
30230000 - Computer-related equipment
32410000 - Local area network
32420000 - Network equipment
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
80000000 - Education and training services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £2,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 24 Jan 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 21 Feb 2025Expired
- 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
- INCLUSIVE MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
- Contact Name
- Graham Thorpe
- Contact Email
- graham.thorpe@moxton-education.com
- Contact Phone
- +44 7540594557
Buyer Location
- Locality
- WATFORD
- Postcode
- WD24 5TY
- Post Town
- Watford
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH27 South West Hertfordshire
- Delivery Location
- TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
-
- Local Authority
- Watford
- Electoral Ward
- Leggatts
- Westminster Constituency
- Watford
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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