Digitally Excluded Learners Connectivity (Covid-19)

A Contract Award Notice
by CAERPHILLY COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL

Source: Find a Tender
Type: Contract (Supply)
Duration: not specified
Value: £2M

Sector: FACILITY
Published: 15 Mar 2021
Delivery: not specified
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

Within all local authorities across Wales

Geochart for 24 buyers and 4 suppliers

24 buyers

Caerphilly County Borough Council Hengoed
Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council Ebbw Vale
Bridgend County Borough Council Bridgend
Cardiff Council Cardiff
Carmarthenshire County Council Carmarthen
Cyngor Sir Ceredigion County Council Aberystwyth
Conwy County Borough Council Conwy
Denbighshire County Council Ruthin
Flintshire County Council Flintshire
Cyngor Gwynedd Council Caernarfon
Isle of Anglesey County Council Anglesey
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council Merthyr Tydfil
Monmouthshire County Council Usk
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Port Talbot
Newport City Council Newport
Pembrokeshire County Council Pembrokeshire
Powys County Council Llandrindod Wells
City & County of Swansea Swansea
Torfaen County Borough Council Torfaen
Vale of Glamorgan Council Barry
Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC Tonypandy
Wrexham County Borough Council Wrexham
Welsh Government Cardiff

4 suppliers

Description

Supporting Welsh Government's 'Stay Safe, Safe Learning’ campaign and specifically assisting digitally excluded learners across Wales, which has been exasperated by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Total Quantity or Scope

Caerphilly CBC in conjunction with Welsh Government led on a procurement to establish cost effective arrangements with mobile data carriers to allow connectivity via Mifi devices and data access via associated tariffs for those digitally excluded leaners as identified by each local authority. In addition purchase software licences in order to turn slow, aging legacy hardware into fast, secure Chrome devices and immediately pass on to those learners.

Award Detail

1	Vodafone (Newbury) Reference: proc10/20/ie Num offers: 4 Value: £1,692,491 [share] Awarded to group of suppliers.
2	British Telecommunications (London) Reference: proc10/20/ie Num offers: 4 Value: £1,692,491 [share] Awarded to group of suppliers.
3	Centerprise (Basingstoke) Reference: proc10/20/ie Num offers: 4 Value: £1,692,491 [share] Awarded to group of suppliers. Contractor is an SME.
4	Neverware Europe (London) Reference: proc10/20/ie Num offers: 4 Value: £1,692,491 [share] Awarded to group of suppliers.

Award Criteria

PRICE

CPV Codes

30000000 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
30200000 - Computer equipment and supplies
32412100 - Telecommunications network

Indicators

Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

There was a need to respond to the COVID-19 consequences immediately because of a loss of existing provision at short notice; The need to react to a situation that is a genuine emergency, not planning for one. The COVID-19 situation is so novel that the consequences are not something you should have predicted. It was impossible to comply with the usual timescales in the PCRs. There was no time to run an accelerated procurement under the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation;There was no time to place a call off contract under an existing commercial agreement such as a framework or dynamic purchasing system.The situation is not attributable to the contracting authority, Caerphilly CBC did not do anything to cause or contribute to the need for extreme urgency.