Networks

Tender description

Cambridgeshire County Council wishes to appoint a Provider to provide Wide area network (WAN) and Wi-Fi services to the organisation. The provider shall be expected to undertake: — managed WAN service. — managed internet access service. 2 / 5 — managed WiFi service (Public). — managed WiFi service (Staff access). The initial Contract will last for a period of 6 years and will take the form of a Framework Agreement, under which individual requirements for each site will be specified and priced according to a schedule of rates agreed as a result of this tender process. 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 2 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 23.6.2018. 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 6 year Framework for all partners to able to initiate their own call down contracts for up to 7 years for the following key network connectivity: — managed WAN service, — managed Internet access service, — managed WiFi service (Public), — managed WiFi service (Staff access), The initial EastNet Partnership membership comprises of: — Cambridgeshire County Council, — Cambridgeshire County Council Schools, — Northamptonshire County Council, — Cambridgeshire fire and rescue service, — Bedfordshire fire and rescue authority, — Huntingdonshire District Council. — Cambridge City Council. 3 / 5 — South Cambridgeshire District Council, — Fenland District Council, — Norwich City Council, — Peterborough City Council, — East Cambridgeshire District Council, — Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Other potentially interested parties in utilising EastNet services include: — Cambridgeshire Constabulary, — Hertfordshire Constabulary, — Bedfordshire Police, — North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, — Nene Clinical commissioning group, — Corby Clinical commissioning group, — Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, — Cambridgeshire community services NHS Trust.