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Summary

OCID:
Published by:: Newry Mourne and Down District Council
Authority ID:: AA72357
Publication date:: 03 April 2020
Deadline date:: 22 May 2020
Notice type:: Contract Notice
Has documents:: No
Has SPD:: No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:: N/A

Abstract

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (The Council) hosts the Full Fibre Northern Ireland (FFNI) consortium and is procuring services on behalf of the consortium members and other public sector customers.

FFNI is a consortium of the ten Northern Ireland Councils outside Belfast.

This procurement is one of several that will be operated by the Council on behalf of the customers, dividing the total requirement into smaller collections of sites.

The Council wishes to procure a Supplier of Gigabit-Capable Fibre connectivity services that will underpin Wide Area Network Connectivity to Customer sites.

FFNI’s Gigabit capable connectivity project is part-funded by the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) through wave 3 of its Local Full Fibre Network Programme (LFFN). It may also be part-funded by the DCMS Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) Programme, and by other sources of funding.

The Council requires the Supplier to design, build and operate the services over the duration of the contract.

The Council wishes to procure replacement access circuits in the form of Point-to-Point (P2P) dark fibre, or virtual equivalent circuits (Tail Circuit Services) to Customer locations across the Consortium Members’ administrative areas.

These infrastructure services will be procured over the long term, from 20 to 30 years or more. It is anticipated that through the potentially large number of connected sites, economies of scale may be realised through aggregation, leading to innovative and cost-effective solutions from the market.

The customers intend to separate the provision of these infrastructure services from the provision of their Wide Area Network (WAN) services. Their WAN managed services will be delivered through the arrangements with existing WAN suppliers, or will be separately procured.

The supplier may provide all elements of the solution itself or may combine commodity services and products from telecoms providers, services from subcontractors, and its own tools, services and expertise, to provide the solution.

The supplier will provide a service management function to manage proactively the availability of the solution to agreed service levels, and to provide prompt remedial action in the event of failure. All aspects of the service should be compliant with the relevant security, information management and regulatory requirements.

All bids must provide dark fibre (or equivalent) gigabit-capable fibre circuits that meet the requirements described in Requirement 1 of the Volume 2 Requirements document.

The B end connection must be to a point of presence that is directly or indirectly accessible to typical WAN suppliers, so that the circuits may be quickly, cost effectively and practically integrated into the customers’ WANs.

The circuit must be maintained in usable condition, available to the customer for a period of at least 20 years.

The supplier will hold a separate contract with each customer, so that this procurement is expected to result in ten separate contracts. However, the contracts will be almost identical, other than in respect of the sites that they cover.

Full notice text

Contract notice

Address of the buyer profile: www.newrymournedown.org/procurement

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

I.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:

www.newrymournedown.org/procurement

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:

www.newrymournedown.org/procurement

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Full Fibre Northern Ireland — Gigabit Capable Fibre Tranche 1

Reference number: 79-2019

II.1.2) Main CPV code

72000000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council is the host organisation for the Full Fibre Northern Ireland (FFNI) Consortium.

FFNI is a Consortium of the ten councils in Northern Ireland outside Belfast.

FFNI was awarded a grant of GBP 15 m from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s wave 3 Local Full Fibre Network Programme. This is supplemented by other sources of funding, including DCMS Rural Gigabit Connectivity grant funding and consortium member and customer funding.

FFNI’s Gigabit Capable Fibre project recognises that the provision of high quality, reliable high-speed connectivity is a necessity for a 21st century economy and society. FFNI is therefore seeking to future proof its own network connectivity requirements for the next 20 years or more through the installation of gigabit capable digital infrastructure services.

II.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 18 000 000.00 GBP

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

72720000

32410000

32400000

32420000

32430000

32500000

32510000

32520000

32560000

32570000

32580000

51300000

45000000

50330000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKN0

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

FFNI is a consortium of the ten Northern Ireland Councils outside Belfast.

This procurement is one of several that will be operated by the Council on behalf of the customers, dividing the total requirement into smaller collections of sites.

The Council wishes to procure a Supplier of Gigabit-Capable Fibre connectivity services that will underpin Wide Area Network Connectivity to Customer sites.

The Council requires the Supplier to design, build and operate the services over the duration of the contract.

All bids must provide dark fibre (or equivalent) gigabit-capable fibre circuits that meet the requirements described in Requirement 1 of the Volume 2 Requirements document.

The circuit must be maintained in usable condition, available to the customer for a period of at least 20 years.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: 18 000 000.00 GBP

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months: 420

This contract is subject to renewal: No

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options:

The customer may order connections to or between further sites at a future time, for example where further budget becomes available, where new sites are acquired or built, where additional resilience is required, or for other reasons.

The customer may order additional ancillary services and equipment to support the tail circuits, including optical network termination equipment and relevant technical services.

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions for participation

III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

List and brief description of conditions:

As detailed in the volumes of the invitation to tender.

III.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

III.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

III.2) Conditions related to the contract

III.2.2) Contract performance conditions

As detailed in the volumes of the invitation to tender.

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2019/S 087-208997

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 22/05/2020

Local time: 12:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 22/05/2020

Local time: 12:01

Place:

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, Unit 19, Greenbank Industrial Estate, NEWRY, Co. Down, BT34 2QU

Information about authorised persons and opening procedure:

David Barter

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

VI.3) Additional information

Suppliers will be expected to deliver services that demonstrate a best value approach.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council is a Public Authority within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and all correspondence received will be dealt with in accordance with the Act.

Newry Mourne and Down District Council is procuring the public contract on behalf of itself and the following bodies delivering public services (Contracting Bodies):

• Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council

• Ards and North Down Borough Council

• Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

• Causeway, Coast and Glens Borough Council

• Derry City and Strabane District Council

• Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

• Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

• Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

• Mid Ulster District Council

• Business Services Organisation

Any such contracting body will be entitled, with the prior written consent, of and through the authority, to contract with and require services to be delivered to it by the appointed organisation on the same or substantially the same terms and conditions as agreed with the authority.

The contracting authority intends to use an e-Tendering system for this procurement process, e-hub www.newrymournedown.org/procurement

Supplier registration is free of charge.

Follow the registration instructions on the e-hub portal.

Browse to the opportunity

Access the volumes of the invitation to tender provided.

Submit your tender response by the deadline indicated.

It is strongly recommended that suppliers unfamiliar with the e-hub Procurement Portal ensure that they are able to access all relevant functions well ahead of the closing dates, since late responses may not be accepted.

If you have any difficulties with the e-hub Procurement Portal, please call 0800 731 6575.

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice (NI)

Chichester St

Belfast

BT1 3 JF

Telephone: +44 2890235111

E-mail: adminoffice@courtsni.gov.uk

Internet address(es)

URL: http://www.courtsni.gov.uk

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period when information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.

This period allows tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Council before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from notice of the award decision to ask for additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from email address:

david.barter@nmandd.org

If a dispute about contract award has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 allow aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court. Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 1 month). The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow parties to apply to the Courts to set aside the award decision before the contract is entered into.

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

31/03/2020

Coding

Commodity categories

ID	Title	Parent category
32570000	Communications equipment	Telecommunications equipment and supplies
45000000	Construction work	Construction and Real Estate
32580000	Data equipment	Telecommunications equipment and supplies
32560000	Fibre-optic materials	Telecommunications equipment and supplies
51300000	Installation services of communications equipment	Installation services (except software)
72000000	IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support	Computer and Related Services
32410000	Local area network	Networks
50330000	Maintenance services of telecommunications equipment	Repair, maintenance and associated services related to personal computers, office equipment, telecommunications and audio-visual equipment
32420000	Network equipment	Networks
32400000	Networks	Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
32520000	Telecommunications cable and equipment	Telecommunications equipment and supplies
32500000	Telecommunications equipment and supplies	Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
32430000	Wide area network	Networks
72720000	Wide area network services	Computer network services
32510000	Wireless telecommunications system	Telecommunications equipment and supplies

Delivery locations

ID	Description
100	UK - All

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About the buyer

Main contact:: David.Barter@nmandd.org
Admin contact:: N/a
Technical contact:: N/a
Other contact:: N/a

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Full Fibre Northern Ireland — Gigabit Capable Fibre Tranche 1

Contents

Summary

Abstract

Full notice text

Contract notice

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.2) Joint procurement

I.3) Communication

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

I.5) Main activity

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

II.1.2) Main CPV code

II.1.3) Type of contract

II.1.4) Short description

II.1.5) Estimated total value

II.1.6) Information about lots

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

II.2.3) Place of performance

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

II.2.5) Award criteria

II.2.6) Estimated value

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

II.2.11) Information about options

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions for participation

III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

III.1.2) Economic and financial standing

III.1.3) Technical and professional ability

III.2) Conditions related to the contract

III.2.2) Contract performance conditions

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

VI.3) Additional information

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

VI.4.3) Review procedure

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

Coding

Commodity categories

Delivery locations

Alert region restrictions

About the buyer

Further information