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Published 7 Aug 2024, 12:51 BST

Official UK procurement notice

T24-081BUS Fortinet Network Switches

Official notice

Authority: Derry City and Strabane District Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Awarded value£62,378published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 7 Aug 2024
Awarded to ATLAS COMMUNICATIONS NI LTD

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Derry City and Strabane District Council intends to procure Fortinet replacement switches to replace all of the above Cisco switches. DCSDC have 2 main council sites and multiple smaller sites. The current switch infrastructure in the main council’s offices at 98 Strand Road has reached end of useful and supportable life. The current Cisco 2960 POE edge switches across 4 cabinets only allow speeds of 100mb per port and as applications and programs get more and more data hungry there is a need to increase this speed. The core switching is 2 x Cisco 3750 non-PoE in a stack with 1Gigabit fibre uplinks to the edge switching cabinets. As the Council has had this switching in place for some time, change of hardware also provides an opportunity to consider and reconfigure the current VLAN configuration to update, improve performance and improve security. Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Network cabling · Network components · Network equipment · Network infrastructure

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 20%Price: 80%
Published sub-criteria (3)
  • Network Audit: 10%
  • Project Plan: 10%
  • price: 80%
Published award criteria (3)
  • Network Audit: 10
  • Project Plan: 10
  • Price: 80
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 80 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 8 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
7 Aug 2024, 12:51 BST
Last source update
7 Aug 2024, 12:51 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-024845
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportNetwork cablingNetwork componentsNetwork equipmentNetwork infrastructure
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN0A)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-048875 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

As per PCR2015

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £62,3781 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 21 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 7 Aug 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
ATLAS COMMUNICATIONS NI LTDSMEContract£62,378 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Derry City and Strabane District Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Council Offices, 98 Strand Road, Derry, UK, BT48 7NNContact name, email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Royal Courts of JusticeMediation bodyReview body Belfast

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.