WAN Services

Concepts

• wide area network
• moj
• wan services
• service recipients
• list of the initial service recipients
• range of service recipients
• list of potential service recipients
• provision of wan services
• list of service recipients
• optional services

Location

Description

The purpose of this Notice is to inform the market of the opportunity for the provision of wide area network (WAN) services. The WAN services will deliver secure connectivity for authorised devices at MoJ's locations and those of its service recipients (over 1000 sites). The Contract for WAN services will be entered into with MoJ. However, the services will be provided for the benefit not only of MoJ but also a range of service recipients (including a range of MoJ executive agencies, arms' length bodies, government companies and other entities to whom MoJ provides services). The Contract will contain a list of the initial service recipients who are to benefit from the provision of WAN Services, as well as a list of Potential Service Recipients who may wish to be added to the list of Service Recipients during the term of the Contract. The estimated total value range of the Contract is between £100 million and £200 million. The actual value of the Contract will depend on a number of influencing factors including: a) the prices tendered by the successful Bidder; b) whether any extension options are applied; c) the extent to which projects are commissioned; d) the volume of service requests; and e) whether any of the optional services are taken up by MoJ during the term of the Contract.

CPV Codes

• 72720000 - Wide area network services

Other Information

Interested suppliers are encouraged to read the WAN Descriptive Document issued as part of the SQ Documentation which provides more information on the scope and requirements of WAN services being procured by the MoJ and details of the competitive dialogue process in accordance with which the WAN Services will be procured. This procurement will be managed electronically via the MoJ's eSourcing Portal, Jaggaer. To participate in this procurement, participants must first be registered on the eSourcing Portal. If you are not registered on the eSourcing Portal, this can be done online at; https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html The SQ and procurement documents will be available under PQQ_341 - Evolve WAN Services. Suppliers must also have signed confidentiality agreements to access the procurement documents. To request a confidentiality agreement please e-mail the evolve.portfolio@justice.gov.uk mailbox stating the PQQ reference in the subject field and include details of where this should be sent for signature. Please note the signing of confidentiality agreements will be handled via Adobe e-sign. The scope of the WAN services includes: -Service Transition-Transition of services while maintaining service continuity; -WAN Connectivity-Secure connectivity to corporate services; -Gateway Services-Secure access to other network domains, cross-government services, and the Internet; and -Core Network Services - Services required for the delivery of the end-to-end network services. Service Transition includes: -Responsibility for service transition to ensure service continuity through to transition to the new services as outlined in the WAN Descriptive Document; -Mobilisation and planning for transition; and -Design and delivery of the new WAN services. WAN Connectivity includes: -Provision of field services; -Provision of Internet circuits and enterprise grade broadband; -Supply and / or maintenance of NTE; -Optimised cloud access, supporting SaaS peering at edge co-location; and -Provision of carrier Internet services, supporting resilient access to SaaS and IaaS services. Gateway Services includes: -Take-over, management and maintenance of: o services that provide connectivity and encrypt LAN traffic between data centres; o Internet access provision at the MoJ data centres; o data centre load balancers; o the remote access solution utilised by the Authority to access the ViSOR application hosted by the Police; and o a secure, resilient network-to-network interconnect gateway. Core Network Services includes: -Provision of a secure and authenticated master time reference service; -Take-over, maintenance and management of the existing networks non-live environment; -Enforcing strong authentication and provision of a PAM service; -Integration with MoJ's IPAM and DHCP services and interfacing with the MoJ's DNS. In addition, there are Service Management, Social Value and Security obligations which the Supplier must comply with in the delivery of the WAN Services. Optional Services have been included within the Services Description Schedule. While these Optional Services are not within the initial scope of the WAN Services at the start of the Contract, the MoJ may require the Supplier to provide any or all of the Optional Services at any time during the term of the Contract by giving notice to the Supplier. The key Optional Services include: -Provision of public sector networks (PSN) access services to allow the MoJ to connect to OGDs over the PSN; -Mobile broadband services; -Direct cloud access services; -Management and maintenance of an existing end user remote access service; -Provision of an IPAM service; -Take-over maintenance and management of Forcepoint proxy servers; and -Provision of SASE services including secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, data loss prevention, zero trust network access / VPN, Internet of things, firewall as a service including RAS client termination, encryption/decryption and SD-WAN services.