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title: "Managed WAN Services 2025 - New contract for existing Wide Area Network"
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# Managed WAN Services 2025 - New contract for existing Wide Area Network

Buyer: HOME OFFICE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-548304b1-f940-4fd9-bf67-80e864a17148

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## Summary

The Home Office has awarded a contract for "Managed WAN Services 2025," focusing on IT services within the category of consulting, software development, Internet and support. The contract involves the provision and management of Wide Area Network services, specifically tailored to support the operational architecture of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) across several regions including the West Midlands, London, South East, South West, and Wales. Having moved into the award stage, the contract value amounts to £2,317,226, and the service period is set from 1st September 2025 to 31st August 2028. This contract follows a selective procurement method, executed via a call-off from a framework agreement, ensuring continuity and operational resilience with Redcentric Solutions Limited as the appointed supplier.

This tender presents business growth opportunities primarily for large-scale enterprises offering bespoke network integration and management solutions, capable of maintaining complex service infrastructures. While the procurement is less suited for SMEs or VCSEs due to the intricacies involved and the substantial infrastructure requirements, companies able to provide deep integration and manage robust system architectures could find similar opportunities appealing. Such engagements could enhance portfolios in terms of capabilities in transitioning and sustaining high-level IT services, thereby fostering broader market competencies and credibility in delivering tailored, high-performance solutions.

## Notice

1. Deep Integrated and Bespoke Solution: Redcentric successfully designed, migrated and implemented IOPC's comprehensive network and data centre solution. This includes managed site-to-site and client VPNs, resilient internet access, critical firewall configurations, and continuous monitoring. These services are fully integrated across the IOPC Farnborough and Corsham Crown Hosting data centres, supporting both production and disaster recovery environments. The solution is uniquely tailored to IOPC's specific architecture and operational requirements. 2. Maintaining Operational Resilience and Continuity Operational resilience is fundamental to IOPC's services and is intrinsically embedded within the existing solution. Redcentric established automated failover between our data centres, configured secure MPLS connectivity, and implemented live replication services, all of which are actively supporting IOPC's business-as-usual operations. Transitioning these highly complex and interconnected services to a new provider would necessitate dismantling and revalidating live configurations, significantly increasing the risk of widespread system outages or degraded service performance. Any switch would also risk the loss of critical configuration knowledge and jeopardise existing fail-safe mechanisms due to the intricate nature of the setup. 3. Incompatibility with Existing Infrastructure and Investment The IOPC has made substantial investment in equipment and service integrations that are intrinsically linked to RedCentric systems and operational frameworks. introducing a new supplier at this stage would require reverse-engineering a live, bespoke solution. This would not only incur significant duplicative costs for infrastructure and re-implementation but also render parts of the existing estate incompatible or redundant. Such a change would undermine the value of the solution already delivered, severely disrupt essential business operations, and delay the realisation of long-term efficiencies envisaged in our original disaggregation strategy. 4. Unacceptable Risk of Service Disruption: A procurement reset, and the introduction of a new supplier would pose an unacceptable risk of service disruption, critical configuration conflicts, and a breakdown in operational continuity due to the need to reverse-engineer and replace a live, highly customised and deeply embedded technical solution.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/60e2351e-76d1-45fd-879f-201d95a76946 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a framework agreement |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 5 Aug 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 16 Jun 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 15 Jun 2025 |
| Contract period | 31 Aug 2025 - 31 Aug 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £2,317,226 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £2,317,226 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | HOME OFFICE |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | East London |
| Postcode | E14 4PU |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI42 Tower Hamlets |
| Local authority | Tower Hamlets |
| Electoral ward | Canary Wharf |
| Westminster constituency | Poplar and Limehouse |
| Delivery location | TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England), TLL Wales |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | REDCENTRIC SOLUTIONS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 5 Aug 2025 at 10:10 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/60e2351e-76d1-45fd-879f-201d95a76946

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/60e2351e-76d1-45fd-879f-201d95a76946
  5th August 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

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