Telecommunications services

Tender description

The procurement seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of telecommunications network services across a range of public sector organisations including Health, Local Government, Police, Fire & Rescue and Transport. The scope of which shall include the design, implementation (including migration and transition), provision and management of telecommunications network services. The procurement seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of telecommunications network services across a range of public sector organisations including Health, Local Government, Police, Fire & Rescue and Transport. The scope of which shall include the design, implementation (including migration and transition), provision and management of telecommunications network services which: —Drives out duplication; —Meets required transition and migration timelines; —Meets technical requirements in terms of HSCN compliance and delivery of PSN compliant services; —Enables integration of services and solutions delivered from shared locations; —Are scalable and flexible allowing quick increase or decrease in bandwidth; and —Maximises the use of existing infrastructure whilst being innovative in solution. The requirements encompass the provision of: —Core network infrastructure; —Wide Area Network infrastructure; —Services compliant with technical, cyber and information governance standards; —Service delivery and customer management functions; and —Services ancillary to the above. For the purposes of this procurement the "Yorkshire and Humber Region" means any location within the following Sustainability and Transformation Plans ("STP") Footprints as defined by NHS England (https://www.england.nhs.uk/stps/) as defined at the date of this Contract Notice: —Humber, Coast and Vale; —South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw; —West Yorkshire and Harrogate; and —Durham, Darlington, Teesside, Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby. As at the publication of this Contract Notice the latest list of these Contracting Authorities can be found in the Office for National Statistics' Public Sector Classification Guide (see the ‘Central Government’ and ‘Local Government’ worksheets in the ‘Public Sector Classification Guide) — January 2017 spreadsheet found at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificationguide classification guide (updated from time to time).