Planning

SBCD Connected Places Hub Sites Project

CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (SWANSEA BAY CITY DEAL)

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Planning

05 Aug 2022 at 00:00

OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The procurement process pertains to the SBCD Connected Places Hub Sites Project, initiated by Carmarthenshire County Council, which is part of the Swansea Bay City Deal partnership. This project, classified under the "services" procurement category, aims to enhance digital infrastructure across South West Wales by securing long-term gigabit-capable fibre connectivity for public sector entities. The current stage of the procurement is in the planning phase, with pre-market engagement scheduled and an upcoming market information day set for 23rd August 2022. The initiative is part of a £55 million programme, with the intention to run multiple procurements aimed at ensuring competitiveness and reliability in fibre connectivity for local councils and public services.

This tender presents significant growth opportunities for businesses engaged in telecommunications and infrastructure services. Companies specialising in fibre optic networking, installation, and maintenance will be well-suited to compete for contracts arising from this programme. The procurement encourages consortium bids, allowing diverse suppliers to collaborate, thereby widening the potential for smaller firms or those with specific capabilities to participate. The emphasis on future-proofing and high-quality service delivery also opens avenues for innovative solutions and partnerships within the digital infrastructure sector.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

SBCD Connected Places Hub Sites Project

Notice Description

Swansea Bay City Deal is a partnership led by the four regional local authorities of South West Wales, Carmarthenshire County Council, Swansea Council, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and Pembrokeshire County Council, together with the Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Boards, Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, supported by other public sector bodies in the region. The partnership's 55m GBP Digital Infrastructure Programme is hosted by Carmarthenshire County Council. It aims to ensure that the region's business, domestic and public sector premises have competitive access to full fibre connectivity. It aims to supplement its own funding with funding from other sources including Welsh Government, UK Government (DCMS), and inward investment from the private sector in the regions digital infrastructure. The partnership and other public sector bodies in the region recognise that the provision of high quality, reliable high-speed connectivity is a necessity for efficient public sector delivery. They seek to future proof their network connectivity requirements over a period of 20-30 years or more through the installation of gigabit capable fibre infrastructure services. The Digital Infrastructure Programme plans to run one or more procurements or procurement lots to identify the best value provision of those fibre infrastructure services. This PIN concerns the pre market engagement for that procurement activity.

Lot Information

Lot 1

This PIN concerns the pre market engagement for procurements for the Swansea Bay City Deal (SBCD) Digital Infrastructure Programme. The Digital Infrastructure Programme is hosted by Carmarthenshire County Council. The Programme envisages that each customer will have a separate contract with the supplier, on materially the same terms. The Digital Infrastructure programme will ensure that the customer implementations are closely co-ordinated to be as similar as possible. The 55m GBP Digital Infrastructure Programme plans to supplement its own funding with potential further funding from other sources, including other partner budgets, and government bodies including Welsh Government and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The SBCD partnership and other public sector bodies in the region recognise that the provision of high quality, reliable high-speed connectivity is a necessity for efficient public sector delivery. They seek to future proof their network connectivity requirements over a period of 20-30 years or more through the installation of gigabit capable fibre infrastructure services. The Programme intends to procure the long-term use of flexible and future proofed gigabit capable fibre infrastructure services for as much of the public sector estate as possible within budget constraints. The method of providing this long-term use is not defined. For example, bidders will be free to propose an Indefeasible Right of Use, or to propose an alternative approach that provides long-term availability in a different way. The Programme aims to procure maintained fibre infrastructure access circuits to connect around 3000 public sector locations across South West Wales. The infrastructure will be required to support dark fibre connectivity, dedicated bandwidth connectivity or shared and contended services, according to the site requirements. The Programme intends to procure infrastructure services that will support a wide range of overlay network services, including through the existing Public Sector Broadband Aggregation programme (PSBA) and other network services arrangements. Although the procurement will focus primarily on infrastructure services, it may also procure options for internet broadband connectivity to ensure best value use of the infrastructure. The infrastructure services will be procured over the long term, 20 to 30 years or more. It is anticipated that through the potentially large number of connected sites, economies of scale may be realised through aggregation, leading to innovative and cost-effective solutions from the market. The Programme requires the Supplier to design, build and operate the infrastructure services over the duration of the contract. The Supplier may provide all elements of the solution itself or may combine commodity services and products from telecoms providers, services from subcontractors, and its own tools, services and expertise, to provide the Solution. The Supplier will provide a service management function to proactively manage the availability of the solution to agreed service levels, and to provide prompt remedial action in the event of failure. All aspects of the service will be compliant with the relevant security, information management and regulatory requirements. The procurement aims to allow suppliers to submit consortium bids, for example partnering with suppliers with different geographical footprints. The procurement may take the form of a single procurement with multiple lots, or of multiple similar procurements. It is currently envisaged that the lots or procurements will be by broadly defined by geographical boundary.. Carmarthenshire County Council Swansea Council Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Pembrokeshire County Council Hywel Dda University Health Board Swansea Bay University Health Board Swansea University University of Wales Trinity Saint David Dyfed Powys Police

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-kuma6s-123547
Publication Source
Sell2Wales
Latest Notice
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=123547
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

45 - Construction work

50 - Repair and maintenance services

51 - Installation services (except software)

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

CPV Codes

32400000 - Networks

32410000 - Local area network

32420000 - Network equipment

32430000 - Wide area network

32500000 - Telecommunications equipment and supplies

32510000 - Wireless telecommunications system

32520000 - Telecommunications cable and equipment

32560000 - Fibre-optic materials

32570000 - Communications equipment

32580000 - Data equipment

45000000 - Construction work

50330000 - Maintenance services of telecommunications equipment

51300000 - Installation services of communications equipment

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72720000 - Wide area network services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£16,000,000 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
5 Aug 20223 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
19 Sep 2022Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Planned
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (SWANSEA BAY CITY DEAL)
Contact Name
Rebecca Llewhellin
Contact Email
rsllewhellin@carmarthenshire.gov.uk
Contact Phone
+44 1267234567

Buyer Location

Locality
CARMARTHEN
Postcode
SA31 3PY
Post Town
Swansea
Country
Wales
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLL Wales
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLL4 Mid and South West Wales
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLL42 South West Wales
Delivery Location
TLL14 South West Wales
Local Authority
Carmarthenshire
Electoral Ward
Carmarthen Town West
Westminster Constituency
Caerfyrddin

Further Information

Notice Documents

  • https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=AUG407166&idx=1
    5th August 2022 - SBCD Connected Places Hub Sites Project PIN
  • https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG407166
    SBCD Connected Places Hub Sites Project - Swansea Bay City Deal is a partnership led by the four regional local authorities of South West Wales, Carmarthenshire County Council, Swansea Council, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and Pembrokeshire County Council, together with the Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda University Health Boards, Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, supported by other public sector bodies in the region. The partnership's 55m GBP Digital Infrastructure Programme is hosted by Carmarthenshire County Council. It aims to ensure that the region's business, domestic and public sector premises have competitive access to full fibre connectivity. It aims to supplement its own funding with funding from other sources including Welsh Government, UK Government (DCMS), and inward investment from the private sector in the regions digital infrastructure. The partnership and other public sector bodies in the region recognise that the provision of high quality, reliable high-speed connectivity is a necessity for efficient public sector delivery. They seek to future proof their network connectivity requirements over a period of 20-30 years or more through the installation of gigabit capable fibre infrastructure services. The Digital Infrastructure Programme plans to run one or more procurements or procurement lots to identify the best value provision of those fibre infrastructure services. This PIN concerns the pre market engagement for that procurement activity.

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