IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Tender description

London and Continental Railways Ltd (LCR) is organising a competitive dialogue procedure with the intention to award a 3-year contract, having the object “Cloud Hosted and Managed IT Services and Provision of IT Hardware”. The current LCR technical environment and the minimum requirements are detailed within Descriptive Documentation. The contract objective includes supply hardware infrastructure and provision of maintenance, support and cloud services as detailed in the procurement documents. The competitive dialogue procedure is organised following Public Contract Regulations 2015; initiated with Selection Stage and followed by multiple dialogue sessions with selected bidders. London and Continental Railways Ltd (LCR) decided to organise a competitive dialogue procedure as result of the necessity of reducing of the company's reliance upon fixed office services. LCR is looking to change all existing hardware infrastructure with more advanced technology and to appoint a single Services Provider who will be responsible for providing new hardware equipment, including maintenance / replacement services, to their office in London and to provide cloud services over a 3-year contract.