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Cisco Switches Maintenance

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

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18 Sep 2026 at 01:00

PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency procured a Cisco firewall switch maintenance service for switches across all of its estate offices. The requirement covers ongoing maintenance of Cisco switching infrastructure rather than the supply of new equipment. It is a service procurement in the information and communications technology field, classified under CPV 72267000. The buyer is SEPA, a Scottish environmental protection body and central purchasing organisation. The work relates to the maintenance of the buyer’s estate-wide firewall switch infrastructure, so relevant suppliers would need to support equipment deployed across multiple offices rather than a single site. The procurement was arranged as one requirement covering the Cisco firewall switch maintenance service.

This procurement has been awarded and the contract is active. Softcat Plc was selected as the supplier for the single requirement. The contract value is £96,638, and it was signed on 17 September 2026. The buyer used a limited procedure: a direct award without prior publication of a competition notice, made through the Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 14 framework. The award followed a single bid, submitted electronically; the bidder was not an SME. The procurement was covered by the Government Procurement Agreement and treated as outside the scope of the relevant directive. The contract award record identifies one supplier and one maintenance requirement. No contract duration or separate award date is provided in the process information.

For a supplier that did not win this procurement, the award indicates a defined requirement for maintaining Cisco firewall switches across a public-sector estate, delivered through a recognised public-sector framework route. A credible competitor would need demonstrable Cisco switching and firewall maintenance capability, together with the operational capacity to support equipment distributed across multiple offices. Experience of servicing estate-wide or geographically dispersed infrastructure would strengthen its position, particularly where consistent response, fault resolution and planned maintenance are required across locations. Suppliers would also need to understand how to position their services for direct framework awards and meet the framework’s eligibility and commercial requirements. The selected supplier was a large business, while the only recorded bid was from outside the EU, indicating that scale and framework access were relevant features of this award.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Cisco Switches Maintenance

Notice Description

Firewall switches at all estate offices maitenance service

Procurement Information

Direct award on CGA G Cloud 14 framework

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000843462
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP564843
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

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

CPV Codes

72267000 - Software maintenance and repair services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£96,638 Under £100K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
18 Sep 20262 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
HOLYTOWN, NORTH LANARKSHIRE
Postcode
ML1 4WQ
Postcode Area
Motherwell
Country
Scotland
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM34 North Lanarkshire
Delivery Location
TLM Scotland
Local Authority
North Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward
Mossend and Holytown
Westminster Constituency
Airdrie and Shotts

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

Softcat Plc

Further Information

Notice Documents

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