Cambridgeshire County Council EastNet Wide Area Network and Wi-Fi Procurement

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Cambridgeshire County Council is dependent on network connectivity to function efficiently and the increased reliance on digital communications and transactions has increased this dependency over recent years. To facilitate this the CPSN Partnership was formed in 2009 with two objectives: • To reduce the cost of network connectivity for public sector partners via economies of scale achieved through taking a shared approach to network connectivity across a geographic area; • To act as an enabler for delivering more joined up public services with the shared network facilitating shared service arrangements, shared buildings and new service delivery models. Each partner initiated their own call-down contract against the framework. The contracts have a co-terminus end date of 23rd June 2018. The County Council intends to build on the success of CPSN with a new partnership to be called EastNet, in recognition that the CPSN membership now includes organisations in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. The County Council will act as the lead authority to ‘stand up’ a six year Framework for all partners to able to initiate their own call down contracts for up to Seven Years for the following key network connectivity: • Managed WAN Service • Managed Internet Access Service • Managed WiFi Service (Public) • Managed WiFi Service (Staff Access) Keywords: EastNet, Public Sector Network, Wide Area Network, Wi-Fi