Technical computer support services

Tender description

‘This is not a tender exercise by the Education Authority’. The Education Authority (EA) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to award a contract for ICT Support Services for Schools. The potential scale and scope of this is such that it offers a significant opportunity to bidders. Prior to initiating the procurement, the EA wishes to establish the level of market interest in participating in the procurement process. At this stage, any information gathered through this market consultation exercise may inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any provider participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any provider at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process. Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from CfT Documents. The questionnaire must be completed and returned via the Messaging function. There are no formal tender documents to be completed other than the questionnaire. The Education Authority wish to establish a framework for the provision of ICT support services to schools on a call-off as required basis. All completed questionnaires must be returned via the messaging function on eTendersNI no later 3pm on Friday 6 November 2020.