--- title: "KMCIT-146 Network Refresh - Preliminary Market Consultation" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02ade6" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02ade6" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02ade6.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02ade6.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" 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-h6vhtk-02ade6 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02ade6) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02ade6.json) ## Summary The Council of the Borough of Kirklees is initiating a preliminary market consultation for the project titled "KMCIT-146 Network Refresh." This procurement process falls within the goods category, specifically related to networks, and aims to enhance the resilience and accessibility of internet services throughout Kirklees, West Yorkshire, UK. Currently, the process is in the planning stage, with responses to the market sounding exercise due by 12:00 PM on 28 May 2021. Interested parties should note that further communication regarding this process is expected on 1 September 2021. This tender presents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in network infrastructure and communication technologies. Companies that focus on the supply of robust computing machinery, telecommunication equipment, and related services would be particularly well-suited to engage in this procurement. Providers with experience in delivering resilient internet solutions, especially for public sector entities, can leverage this opportunity to contribute to enhancing critical services that operate continuously in Kirklees. ## Notice Kirklees Council is undertaking market engagement to understand the views of the market place prior to undertaking a procurement process for a Network Refresh. Further information on this process is available through the regional procurement portal www.yortender.co.uk ### Lot Information Lot 1 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 the PIN 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 engagement is available for interested organisations to access on the YORtender website (www.yortender.co.uk) Additional information: Further information on this process is available through the regional procurement portal www.yortender.co.uk Responses to the MSE must be made via YORtender no later than 12:00pm on 28 May 2021 ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009845-2021 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Goods | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 6 May 2021 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 31 Aug 2021 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £1 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | 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 2TU | | 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 | Not specified | ## 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 - 32000000 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment - 32400000 - Networks ## Release History - 6 May 2021 at 12:41 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009845-2021 ## Notice URLs - http://www.kirklees.gov.uk - https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=0f28c6a4-a0ad-eb11-810c-005056b64545 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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