Corporate Wide Area Network for AGCSU
A Contract Award Notice
by NHS ARDEN & GEM CSU
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £812K
- Sector
- TECHNOLOGY
- Published
- 24 Mar 2021
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Derby
2 buyers
- NHS Arden & Gem CSU Derby
1 supplier
- Virgin Media Business Reading
Description
A Wide Area Network (WAN) connecting NHS AGEM CSU corporate sites & Data Centres.
Total Quantity or Scope
A Wide Area Network (WAN) connecting NHS AGEM CSU corporate sites & Data Centres, consisting of 31 circuits across 17 site locations.
Award Detail
| 1 | Virgin Media Business (Reading)
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Award Criteria
| PRICE | _ |
CPV Codes
- 72720000 - Wide area network services
Indicators
- Award on basis of price.
Legal Justification
Technical aspects; interoperability and economic reasons made competitively tendering for only part of the WAN an unrealistic option. Unnecessary duplication of equipment, circuits and technical resource costs in the order of between £150k to £200k to achieve a workable technical solution of a split provider WAN network, meant that this was not a value for money (VfM) proposition and service/issue/escalation management of two suppliers would also be an added risk. The CSU having assessed technical reasons, economic reasons (VfM) and compliance aspects considered that the only reasonable course of action was to direct award expiring circuits within its current WAN estates so as to co-term with other in-contract circuits by 31st March 2024. This will enable the CSU to tender for all WAN services in their entirety during 2023 and mobilise before March 2024 contract end date.
Reference
- FTS 005978-2021