--- title: "KMCIT-146 Network Refresh - Preliminary Market Consultation" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES" published: "2021-05-06" --- # KMCIT-146 Network Refresh - Preliminary Market Consultation Buyer: THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-08dd8057-22b7-424a-8f8c-687151ebde8d.json) ## Summary The procurement process titled "KMCIT-146 Network Refresh - Preliminary Market Consultation" is managed by The Council of the Borough of Kirklees. This process is currently in the planning stage and focuses on acquiring office and computing machinery, networks, and communication systems. Interested parties should note the engagement end date set for 28th May 2021. The primary location for the delivery of services is Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom. The Council aims to gather market insights to guide a future tender process that aligns with its infrastructure needs and promotes reliable internet accessibility for various services across Kirklees. This tender presents opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) to engage in the public sector, particularly those specialising in network and communication systems. Companies that can provide resilient technology solutions that enhance connectivity and service delivery will find this an advantageous opportunity, particularly those capable of collaborating with local councils to ensure their offerings meet the expectations of a modern, 'internet first' approach to public services. ## Notice Kirklees Council is a complex organisation covering a large geographic area with services being delivered across many places and other partner organisations. Our 'internet first' approach will ensure people will be able to access services from any of those organisations and work in places across Kirklees and with partners nationally. The expectations of being 'internet first' requires resilience across all of the services we offer. Kirklees Council delivers critical services around the clock and those services, some of them cloud based, need to be available as near to 99.99% of the time as possible. Therefore, we need to have reliable technology and the internet connectivity for people to communicate with each other and access the applications they use whether within a council location, a partner location or at home. We need to ensure that they can get on with their jobs by maintaining robust and fast central data services such as file storage, applications, and communication. We are undertaking soft market engagement to potentially produce a tender help inform the specification to help design and deliver the ambition for Kirklees around available and resilient infrastructure. This Market Sounding Exercise (MSE) is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. The Council, as contracting authority, is issuing this request for information only, to assess the reaction of the market and thus make any future procurement process more focused and efficient. Your responses will assist us in creating a procurement process which is well-framed, focused, feasible and likely to be of interest to the market. The value of the project is unknown at this stage, therefore this notice is being issued to ensure that any subsequent procurement process that is undertaken by the Council following the market engagement is complaint should the value of the services required be valued at above the threshold for Goods and Services. The Council would like to gain information from the market regarding several issues related to the potential procurement exercise. Further information on the Market Sounding Exercise is available for interested organisations to access on the YORtender website (www.yortender.co.uk) ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b2557ddf-4994-494a-85cd-cda7de0a2328 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 6 May 2021 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 28 May 2021 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES | | Locality | HUDDERSFIELD | | Post town | Huddersfield | | Postcode | HD1 2NF | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber | | ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire | | ITL 3 | TLE44 Calderdale and Kirklees | | Local authority | Kirklees | | Electoral ward | Newsome | | Westminster constituency | Huddersfield | | Delivery location | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages - 32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment ### Codes - 30000000 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages - 30237110 - Network interfaces - 32400000 - Networks - 32412000 - Communications network ## Release History - 6 May 2021 at 12:42 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b2557ddf-4994-494a-85cd-cda7de0a2328 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b2557ddf-4994-494a-85cd-cda7de0a2328 6th May 2021 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - http://www.kirklees.gov.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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