Telecommunications equipment and supplies

Tender description

KCS on behalf of the Central Buying Consortium wishes to create an Agreement for the supply and delivery of Telephony Systems and Associated Services for use by public sector bodies identified at VI.3 (and any future successors to these organisations). Member Authorities that will be using the Agreement from the outset are: Hampshire CC, Hertfordshire CC, Oxfordshire CC, Suffolk CC, West Sussex CC. Other public bodies will have access to this Agreement but may only do so with the agreement of the Contracting Authority. Those organisations who may wish to access this Agreement will be members, affiliates and associates of the CBC Group, Local Authorities, the Police Service, the Fire Service, the NHS and NHS Trusts, Housing Associations, third sector organisations, academic centres (including Academies and Free Schools), publicly funded organisations and publicly owned private companies, operating within the geographic boundaries of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Northern Ireland. This Framework will cover the provision of Telephony Systems and Associated Services, both Cloud and on-premise options. Including but not limited to: — IP Telephone Systems, — VoIP Telephone Systems, — Call Packages, — Features list: o Call recording, o Video conferencing, o Interactive Voice Response (IVR), o Voicemail, o Paging, o Tannoy, o Web portal access, o Call logging; — Connectivity o Traditional lines — Analogue, ISDN2, ISDN30, o SIP Lines, o Broadband — ADSL and Fibre to the Cabinet, o Ethernet Leased line; — Numbering o Porting, o Traditional/geographic, o Non Geographic — 03xx, 08xx, o Direct Dial numbers (DDI). As ranges increase with technological advances it is anticipated that any future innovative products will be made available as part of the Framework Agreement.