Closed tender

Replacement VPN and Secure web gateway product

Details

Topic
Network interfaces
Published
21 October 2024
Submission
1 November 2024

Tender description

We would like to notify you of an upcoming requirement, and by doing so we are keen to understand where the market stands in terms of our requirement below. This Request for Information (RFI) seeks information relating to purchasing a new replace VPN and Secure web gateway product. While looking at our upcoming requirement to replace legacy components we wish to look at new technologies and how we transition our services to future industry trends. These trends include ZTNA as a replacement for our client-based VPN’s and on-premises Secure web gateway, SSE and SASE solutions. We also would like to explore how our WAN could evolve in the upcoming few years around an integrated approach with a strategic vendor providing connectivity to hybrid works and branch sites with a view around how Zero Trust could also be applied. This RFI has been submitted under both the following frameworks: • Health Trust Europe – ICT Solution 3 • NHS SBS – Digital Workplace Solutions For those suppliers who are registered under both frameworks, you will only need to submit one response. Please indicate which framework you are submitting your response under. This should be the framework which you feel will offer the most value to the Police based on the requirements listed in this RFI.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published21 October 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date1 November 2024

About the buyer

Sussex Police buys as a blue light force through a joint procurement service shared with Surrey Police. This Joint Procurement Service advises both forces and their Police and Crime Commissioners on every tender. National policing contracts increasingly route through BlueLight Commercial, formed in 2024 from the Police Digital Service's frameworks.

Over the past 5 years, most of Sussex Police's contract awards have been in office and computing equipment and software and information systems.

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