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Contract Notice

Specification for the Provision of IT Support Services

  • First published: 30 January 2020
  • Last modified: 30 January 2020

Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-098295
Published by:
Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Authority ID:
AA0865
Publication date:
30 January 2020
Deadline date:
28 February 2020
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Has documents:
Yes
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

The Commissioner is seeking to appoint an IT Managed Service provider to support and maintain all of the Commissioner's in-house IT systems. The contract is to commence on 1 July 2020. The contract will be for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The Commissioner requires a fully outsourced managed service. The Commissioner does not employ in-house IT Staff.

Full notice text

CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

SERVICES

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address


Older People's Commissioner for Wales

Cambrian Buildings, Mount Stuart Square,

Cardiff Bay

CF10 5FL

UK

Katie Holliday

+44 3442640670


www.olderpeoplewales.com
www.sell2wales.gov.wales
www.sell2wales.gov.wales

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Specification for the Provision of IT Support Services

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

The Commissioner is seeking to appoint an IT Managed Service provider to support and maintain all of the Commissioner's in-house IT systems. The contract is to commence on 1 July 2020. The contract will be for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The Commissioner requires a fully outsourced managed service. The Commissioner does not employ in-house IT Staff.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=98295.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
1022 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

23.1 The contract shall be awarded to the best technical tender that is within budget. The budget for the Service Level Agreement as outlined within section 4 of this tender is £15,000, this budget does not include those items identified within section 20. Any tenders received that are in excess of this budget will be automatically deemed non-compliant.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

Compliance with the SQuID questionnaire

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders
    28-02-2020  Time  17:00

Estimated award date
 03-04-2020

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

EN  CY 

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:98295)

5.2

Additional Documentation

Tendr Gwasanaeth Cymorth TG DIWEDD
ICT Tender FINAL
39884_Cwestiynau_SQuID
39884_SQuID_Questions

5.3

Publication date of this notice

 30-01-2020

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support Computer and Related Services

Delivery locations

ID Description
1022 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

Document family

Notice details
Publication date:
30 January 2020
Deadline date:
28 February 2020 00:00
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Authority name:
Older People's Commissioner for Wales
Publication date:
25 January 2021
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Authority name:
Older People's Commissioner for Wales

About the buyer

Main contact:
N/a
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

Further information

Date Details
11/02/2020 20:07
Outstanding answers to questions
Apologies for the delay in my response. Please find below answers to outstanding questions:

Firewalls – 1 SonicWall NSA 2600
Support license renewal – 10th May 2020

Routers – These are usually supplied by our ISP and manged by them.

Switches – 2 x Dell N1524
1x Dell N1548P
Access Points – 11 x SonicPoint ACi e5b00

What type of connection and speed do we get with our current ISP?
100 Mbps down 20 Mbps up

Cloud Services:
Cloud Backups
Office 365 - Email & Office Licensing

BACKUP: How much data is held on each VM?
OPCW-A - 80GB
OPCW-B – 425GB
OPCW-C - 413GB
OPCW-D – 70GB

BACKUP: How often do you want to test the backups?
Once a year

If I've over looked anything please let me know
Kind regards Katie
22/02/2020 15:21
Question and Answers deadline change
The deadline for submission of questions through the online Q&A function has been changed as below.
Old question submission deadline: 26/02/2020 17:00
New question submission deadline: 25/02/2020 17:00
Please ensure that you have submitted all questions before the new date.

Postbox

The awarding buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Tender Submission Postbox facility.

Submit your tender response electronically in a secure environment.

To create an electronic response please click the "Add to my interest list" button at the top of the page.

For more information on the Postbox Facility please refer to the user guide:

Q&A

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Additional Documents

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