Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Managed Network Operations Centre.
Authority: FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvide Network Operations Centre responsible for technical support & management of all network infrastructure including MPLS, Direct Internet Access, Data Centre, and hardware support (break fix) for network equipment hosted within Data Centre, Office, or Station locations. To include but no limited to Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Corporate & Guest WIFI and VPN's.
Core Technologies to support will include:
i. Checkpoint Firewalls
ii. Meraki Wireless
iii. Cisco ISE
iv. Cisco Switches
v. Silver Peak SD-WAN
vi. zScaler Cloud Web Filtering
vii. IaaS Networking (AWS / Azure)
Core Support Hours 08:00-18:00 excluding Christmas and Boxing Day with Out of Hours Support covering all other times. 24/7 P1/P2 Incident Resolution via Major Incident Management Process and proactive alerting on critical systems and services.
Service will support business employees (approx. 3800) with all IT connectivity support requirements in office, at station or onboard train services. Service should incorporate promotion of Self Service, Intelligent Monitoring and Automation throughout with use of the First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Limited ServiceNow Instance for incident management.
CPV: Information technology services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£560,000
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Aug 2021, 14:36 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Aug 2021, 14:36 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-018450- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02cf80Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 3 Sept 2021, 23:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Participation fee
- document
Timeline
2 Aug 2021 → 6 Sept 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published2 Aug 2021, 14:36 BST
- Submission deadline3 Sept 2021, 23:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected6 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- First Greater Western LtdReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.