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

2 Contract Details

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Title

Denbighshire Schools’ Networks Contracts

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Description of the goods or services required

This notice at this stage is to purely gather market intelligence for the requirement detailed below. There is no guarantee that any competitive exercise will follow this exercise.

Existing Denbighshire School Networks

In Denbighshire the Schools’ ICT network is set up in the following way. Denbighshire Central ICT provide access to, and the monitoring of, the Internet to all schools. On each school site the ICT network is split into Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs, also referred to as networks)-:• Admin network for access to the corporate network and applications;•Curriculum network for school pupils to access Internet applications;•Higher Curriculum or Teacher network on some school sites for teachers who need to access both Admin and Curriculum networks.The Admin network is currently outsourced to a single third party provider under a managed service contract and is administered by the Local Authority. This contract is due to end on 31st August 2019. Schools individually contract a range of third party ICT providers for their Curriculum/Teachers networks and these contracts end on a range of dates between from now until 2022.

Objectives

The objectives at this stage are to consider innovative, cost effective solutions for the schools’ networks moving forward, in the provision of:•PSBA compliant access from schools to the Denbighshire County Council Corporate Network for some school users•a suitable infrastructure to support network access for teaching staff and pupils to a range of curriculum resources. Compliance with regulations on all networks will be managed by the Local Authority through a governance framework

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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

We are looking to see if there are providers in the market with a proven track record of delivering services of this nature.

If you believe your organisation could provide this service please submit an email to jane.a.hughes@denbighshire.gov.uk detailing some evidence of past experience of contracts which are similar to the service described in this notice. Alternatively if you have any further questions please email Jane Hughes on the above address or tel 01824 706256

This is a time limited market testing exercise which will close on 15th June 2018.

(WA Ref:82605)

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Publication date of this notice