Smart Sound Connect Centralised Management

Tender description

To appoint a suitably experienced and qualified supplier to provide centralised management of Smart Sound Connect, a high throughput, low latency 4/5G Mobile private network to cover Plymouth Sound area, supporting marine trials of multiple use cases across marine autonomous vessels and marine research PML Applications have already been appointed under an existing contract to provide full end-to-end design, implementation and management of the Smart Sound Connect 4G/5G and high speed mesh networks at a value of £145,000. It is proposed under this VEAT Notice that this contract is extended to include responsibility for the full management and support for the contracted 27 use cases at a value of £85,000 Contract to run until 31st December 2023 with 5 year equipment legacy requirements Lot 1: Negotiated procedure without prior publication in accordance with Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii) – negotiated procedure without prior publication of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Contract duration: Until 31st December 2023 with 5 year equipment legacy requirements