WGCD IT Products and Services Agreement (iii)

Tender description

The Welsh Government Commercial Delivery Team, on behalf of the Welsh Public Sector, wishes to establish a collaborative Framework Agreement for the supply of IT Product and Services to the public sector in Wales. There are five lots to covering a range of Products and/ or Services as follows: Lot 1 - Hardware Lot 2 - Software Lot 3 - Audio Visual Services Lot 4 - Multi-functional Print Devices and Print Solutions Lot 5 - Integrated Solutions Lot 1: Hardware The purpose of this Lot is to provide Customers with: (a) access to a wide range of IT Hardware products; (b) access to services to support, manage and enable IT hardware estates; (c) value for money, through; (i) an effective supply chain; (ii) supply base with Vendor Accreditations; and (iii) value added services. The Supplier shall provide a range of IT Hardware, including but not limited to; (a) end user devices; (b) servers and storage devices; (c) network equipment; (d) converged infrastructure; (e) Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS hardware); and (f) end point devices. Additional information: 15 suppliers have been awarded a place within this Lot. Suppliers successful under this Lot will be provided the option to be appointed to Lot 5 (Integrated Solutions). Lot 2: Software The purpose of this Lot is to provide Customers: (a) access to a wide range of software and cloud services products; (b) access to services to deploy and manage software and cloud services; (c) value for money, through; (i) competitive tendering (further competitions); (ii) supply base with Vendor Accreditations; and (iii) value adding services. Licensing and Subscription Scope The Supplier shall provide a wide range of licensing and subscriptions, including but not limited to: (a) off-the-shelf software licences; (b) enterprise licenses; (c) open source software; (d) Software as a Service subscriptions; (e) support licence renewals; and (f) cloud and web services (including Platform and Infrastructure as a Service). The Supplier shall have the capability to provide software products to multiple operating systems. Associated Services Scope The Supplier shall provide a range of design, implementation and on-going management Services, to include but not be limited to: (a) strategy design; (b) security management Additional information: 8 suppliers have been awarded a place within this Lot. Suppliers successful under this Lot will be provided the option to be appointed to Lot 5 (Integrated Solutions). Lot 3: Audio Visual Services The Supplier shall provide a range of Audio Visual Services equipment including but not limited to: (a) video conferencing equipment; (b) interactive whiteboards; (c) interactive displays; (d) projectors; (e) sound and visual recording equipment; (f) CCTV systems; (g) meeting room audio; (h) PA systems; and (i) digital signage etc. The Supplier shall be able to provide rental equipment and services for instances such as one-off events. Services The Supplier shall be required to provide on-going support and maintenance for: (a) equipment installed by the Supplier; and (b) existing equipment. Additional information: 5 suppliers have been awarded a place within this Lot. Tenderers bidding for Lot 3 (Audio Visual) shall not be permitted to bid for any other Lots, with the exception of the option of being appointed to Lot 5 (Integrated Solutions) Lot 4: Multi-Functional Print Devices and Print Solutions The Supplier shall be required to provide a range of Products and/ or Services under this lot: Multi-Functional Print Devices and Print Solutions The objective of this framework is to: (a) Provide Customers with a wide range of MFD products and services, which meet the individual Customers requirements; (b) Offer a flexible, competitive and simple route to market; (c) Provide a value for money route to market, which continues to evolve to offer the latest technologies at competitive pricing; and (d) Provide document and print solutions which balance the need for immediate savings, whilst considering the socio and environmental impact on future generations. Additional information: 8 suppliers have been awarded a place within this Lot. Suppliers successful under this Lot will be provided the option to be appointed to Lot 5 (Integrated Solutions). Lot 5: Integrated Solutions The Supplier shall provide an integrated IT Hardware and Software Solutions service, which will include but will not be limited to the scope of Lots 1 – 4. This may take the form of: (a) a one-stop-shop solution in which a single Supplier provides all aspects of the Customers IT requirements; (i) several Elements, i.e. Hardware & Software (ii) semi managed service, where a supplier would provide day-to-day operations, such as schools appointing a supplier to provide, install and manage network, to support Chrome/ Apple etc. or (b) the design, implementation and/ or support of an IT Solution, which requires Products and or Services covered by 2 or more Lots, including but not limited to: (i) digital Transformation (ii) emerging Technologies, i.e. Smart City, machine learning, IoT (iii) unified/ corporate comms; (iv) converged/ hyper converged/ software defined Infrastructure; (v) data centre design and implementation; (vi) hybrid infrastructure solutions; and (vii) bundled hardware and software. (viii) audio Visual Solutions (ix) print and document solutions Successful Tenderers on Lot 1 (Hardware), Lot 2 (Software), Lot 3 (Audio Visual Services) and Lot 4 (Multi-Functional Print Devices and Print Solutions) shall automatically be given the option to be appointed to Lot 5 (Integrated Solutions). Additional information: 22 suppliers were awarded a place within this Lot. For avoidance of doubt, there was no separate Tender exercise to appoint Tenderers to Lot 5 (Integrated Solutions). Tenderers were given the option to be awarded a place on Lot 5 if successful in Lots 1-4.