Higher Education Networking Supply & Services 2

Tender description

North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium Ltd (NEUPC) is one of six UK Higher Education purchasing consortia established to deliver and manage a wide range of collaborative framework agreements designed to maximise third party expenditure within the higher education sector. NEUPC wishes to develop a National Framework Agreement to service the requirements of UK Higher Education Institutions and Associate members for the supply of Networking Equipment and Services through a framework for Higher Education Networking equipment and services, for the supply, installation, storage, maintenance, and repair of Networking Equipment and Networking Consultancy provision. This framework may consist of 4 lots to provide a complete provision of network equipment (lot 1), network services (lots 2 and 3) and Consultancy (lot 4). Lot 1: Networking Equipment Supply Only Network Equipment only e.g. Gateways, Routers, Switches, Bridges, Hubs, Repeaters, Multilayer switches, Bridge Routers, Proxy Servers, Firewalls, ISDN terminal adapter, network interface controller, wireless network interface controller, network monitoring systems, CWDM optical platforms, DWDM optical platforms, IP Video Products, IP Security Systems, Wireless Client Adapters and Protocol Converters and Ethernet adaptors. List not exhaustive, all wired & wireless network eqmpt included. This agreement will be open to universities and partners regardless of whether or not they are defined as contracting authorities for the purpose of the PCR 2015. It is anticipated that some of the future call off contracts under this framework may be part funded from external streams, including European Union ( EU) funding and (ERDF/ESF) & potentially other research bodies. All funding assessed under this framework will be considered compliant for purposes of external funding by the named participants. Additional information: Refer to the Delta e-sourcing site on notice link (& Delta Supplier Info Document). Under no circumstances will NEUPC incur any liability in respect of this PIN or supporting documents. NEUPC reserve the right to not proceed to ITT / to cancel the Project and to not proceed to Contract & will incur no Liability in doing so. Lots, content etc are NOT final & may change. Not a call for competition. Lot 2: Networks Projects < £1m Small to Medium Networking Projects – Up to £1,000,000 in value. Covering any or all aspects of Networking, including equipment, design, storage, implementation, maintenance, training, through to final disposal. This list is not exhaustive. This PIN is not a call for Competition. See Delta. Additional information: Refer to the Delta e-sourcing site on notice link (& Delta Supplier Info Document). Under no circumstances will NEUPC incur any liability in respect of this PIN or supporting documents. NEUPC reserve the right to not proceed to ITT / to cancel the Project and to not proceed to Contract & will incur no Liability in doing so. Lots, content etc are NOT final & may change. Not a call for competition. Lot 3: Networks Projects >£1m Large Networking Projects – In excess of £1 million in value. Covering any or all aspects of Networking, including equipment, design, storage, implementation, maintenance, training, through to final disposal. This list is not exhaustive. This PIN is not a call for Competition. See Delta. Additional information: Refer to the Delta e-sourcing site on notice link (& Delta Supplier Info Document). Under no circumstances will NEUPC incur any liability in respect of this PIN or supporting documents. NEUPC reserve the right to not proceed to ITT / to cancel the Project and to not proceed to Contract & will incur no Liability in doing so. Lots, content etc are NOT final & may change. Not a call for competition. Lot 4: Networks Consultancy Provision of all aspects of Independent networking Consultancy. This lot is not open to suppliers awarded on lots 1-3 to avoid any conflicts of interest. This PIN is not a call for competition. See Delta. Additional information: Refer to the Delta e-sourcing site on notice link (& Delta Supplier Info Document). Under no circumstances will NEUPC incur any liability in respect of this PIN or supporting documents. NEUPC reserve the right to not proceed to ITT / to cancel the Project and to not proceed to Contract & will incur no Liability in doing so. Lots, content etc are NOT final & may change. Not a call for competition.