Telecommunications services

Tender description

This procurement seeks to award a five year services contract between Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and the successful bidder. The contract will be to deliver Telecommunications Network Services to RCHT for its own benefit and to other end users in health and social care sector that make up the Cornwall Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). The contract will have a mechanism for increasing the volume of services to be delivered in the event of increased demand and/or new end users. The contract will only be awarded to a supplier who has been accredited at the point of award by NHS Digital as being HSCN Compliant to Stage 2. The appointed supplier will be required to Design and implement an integrated network to replace and transform the current services; perform the associated transition and migration with pace; provide a fully integrated voice and data network; provide the ongoing delivery and management of the solution. This procurement seeks to award a five year services contract between Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (‘RCHT’) and the successful bidder. The contract will be to deliver Telecommunications Network and Voice Services to the Authority, who will be holding the contract on behalf of the Cornwall COIN stakeholders in addition to a number of other end users within the health and social care sector in Cornwall who shall be entitled to benefit from the services under the contract. As such, the contract will have a mechanism for increasing the volume of services to be delivered in the event of increased demand and/or new end users.The contract will only be awarded to a supplier who has been accredited at the point of award by NHS Digital as being HSCN Compliant to Stage 2. The application process to become a HSCN Compliant supplier can be found at: https://digital.nhs.uk/health-social-care-network/suppliers The appointed supplier will be required to, design and implement an integrated Data and Voice network to replace and transform the current services; perform the associated transition and migration from the existing provider(s) to the new solution with pace; and provide the ongoing delivery and management of the solution collectively known as the Network and Voice Services.