Speculative Notice – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which further information may be obtained

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

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Title

Audio Visual (AV) Equipment - Schools - Wrexham County Borough Council

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Description of the goods or services required

Wrexham County Borough Council is inviting suppliers of Audio Visual (AV) Equipment to provide information on your service offering to include detail on consultancy, design, procurement and installation services of Classroom Audio / Visual equipment to its schools. Please provide information of any experience you had in a schools setting.

Background / Current Situation

A major infrastructure refurbishment has been completed across all Wrexham schools along with significant investment from Welsh Government on user devices in schools. Wrexham County Borough Council provide a managed ICT service to all of its 70 schools that encompasses the following core services and provision:

• Networks and infrastructure

• User device procurement and management

• MIS and data, training, provision and support

• Audio visual equipment and teaching equipment

• School telecoms support

Wrexham works closely with Welsh Government and its Hwb EdTech strategy and has Hwb first approach to providing EdTech in schools. We use the Hwb EdTech national catalogue for the procurement of a range of EdTech equipment, including AV devices and screens so suppliers should also be able to offer installation services for AV equipment procured by WCBC or schools that has not necessarily been directly provided by them.

Video Conferencing / Online Learning

Schools use Microsoft Teams and Google for Education extensively for both onsite learning and teaching and also to support remote learning, therefore any solutions offered should be certified and or guaranteed to be compatible for both platforms.

Please can you e-mail your response to Rachel Sanders, Category Manager by 12noon on Thursday 14th April 2022 to rachel.sanders@wrexham.gov.uk. Please ensure you only submit information that is relevant to the information requested in the notice above. Please include the reference: PROC21-194 – AV Schools in the subject heading of your e-mail response.

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Notice Coding and Classification

3 Administrative Information

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

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Estimated Start of the Award Procedure

4 Other Information

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Additional Information

(WA Ref:120154)

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Download Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice