---
title: "Cisco Switches Maintenance"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000843462"
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source: "Public Contracts Scotland"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Scottish Environment Protection Agency"
published: "2026-09-18"
---

# Cisco Switches Maintenance

Buyer: Scottish Environment Protection Agency  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000843462

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

Firewall switches at all estate offices maitenance service

### Procurement Information

Direct award on CGA G Cloud 14 framework

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP564843 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 18 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| 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 | £96,638 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| Locality | HOLYTOWN, NORTH LANARKSHIRE |
| Postcode area | Motherwell |
| Postcode | ML1 4WQ |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM3 West Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM34 North Lanarkshire |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Electoral ward | Mossend and Holytown |
| Westminster constituency | Airdrie and Shotts |
| Delivery location | TLM Scotland |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Softcat Plc |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 72267000 - Software maintenance and repair services

## Release History

- 18 Sep 2026 at 01:00 - Award - PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP564843

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP564843
  Cisco Switches Maintenance - Firewall switches at all estate offices maitenance service

## Notice URLs

- http://
- http://www.sepa.org.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000843462

## Provenance

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