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Contract Award Notice

WAN Services

  • First published: 23 October 2025
  • Last modified: 23 October 2025
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Summary

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-03a71a
Published by:
Ministry of Justice
Authority ID:
AA25231
Publication date:
23 October 2025
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Contract for provision of wide area network (WAN) services.

The WAN services will deliver secure connectivity for authorised devices at MoJ’s locations and those of its service recipients (over 1000 sites).

The Contract for WAN services has been entered into by MoJ. The services will be provided for the benefit not only of MoJ but also a range of service recipients (MoJ executive agencies, arms’ length bodies, government companies and other entities to whom MoJ provides services), which are listed in Schedule 33 (Service Recipients) of the Contract.

Full notice text

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Ministry of Justice

102 Petty France

London

SW1H 9AJ

UK

Telephone: +44 02033343555

E-mail: evolve.portfolio@justice.gov.uk

NUTS: UK

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions

I.5) Main activity

Public order and safety

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

WAN Services

II.1.2) Main CPV code

72720000

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Contract for provision of wide area network (WAN) services.

The WAN services will deliver secure connectivity for authorised devices at MoJ’s locations and those of its service recipients (over 1000 sites).

The Contract for WAN services has been entered into by MoJ. The services will be provided for the benefit not only of MoJ but also a range of service recipients (MoJ executive agencies, arms’ length bodies, government companies and other entities to whom MoJ provides services), which are listed in Schedule 33 (Service Recipients) of the Contract.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 163 000 000.00  GBP

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

30237110

32400000

32412000

32412100

32415000

32420000

32424000

32427000

32428000

32430000

50312310

72315000

72315100

72315200

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UK

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

The purpose of this Contract is the provision of WAN Services to the MoJ. The scope of the WAN services includes:

•Service Transition – Transition of services while maintaining service continuity;

•WAN Connectivity – Secure connectivity to corporate services;

•Gateway Services – Secure access to other network domains, cross-government services, and the Internet; and

•Core Network Services – Services required for the delivery of the end-to-end network services.

Service Transition includes:

•Continuing provision of the existing WAN services until the Authority’s sites cutover to the new WAN Services, to ensure service continuity;

•Mobilisation and planning for transition; and

•Design and delivery of the new WAN services.

WAN Connectivity includes:

•Provision of field services;

•Provision of Dedicated Internet Access circuits (including NTE) and enterprise grade broadband;

•Mobile Broadband services

Gateway Services includes:

• Management and maintenance of:

o MoJ’s network infrastructure that provides secure access to other network domains, cross-government services, and the Internet (MoJ’s ‘Gateway System’) ;

o data centre load balancers;

o the remote access solution utilised by the Authority to access the ViSOR application hosted by the Police; and

o a secure, resilient network-to-network interconnect gateway.

Core Network Services includes:

•Provision of a secure and authenticated master time reference service;

• Maintenance and management of a non-live environment for the Gateway System;

•Enforcing strong authentication and provision of a PAM service;

•Integration with MoJ’s IPAM and interfacing with the MoJ’s DNS.

In addition, there are Service Management, Social Value and Security obligations which the Supplier must comply with in the delivery of the WAN Services.

Optional Services have been included within the contract. While these Optional Services are not within the initial scope of the WAN Services at the start of the Contract, the MoJ may require the Supplier to provide any or all of the Optional Services at any time during the term of the Contract by giving notice to the Supplier.

The key Optional Services include:

•Mobile broadband airtime;

o Internet access provision at the MoJ data centre

•Provision of SASE services to support the MoJ’s SASE solution, including resale of additional SD-WAN hardware and service subscriptions, and provision of relevant professional services and field engineering services.

•Provision of IPAM services

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options:

Additional optional services may be purchased during the term of the Contract.

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

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

II.2.14) Additional information

Award Criteria in accordance with the procurement documentation issued to Tenderers

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Competitive dialogue

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2023/S 000-014987

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: con_25452

Title: WAN Services

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

V.2 Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

23/09/2025

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Vodafone Limited

The Connection, Vodafone House, Berkshire

Newbury

RG14 2FN

UK

NUTS: UK

The contractor is an SME: No

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: : 163 000 000.00  GBP

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:

Transition, maintenance, and management of Gateway Services & Core Network Services requirements.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Ministry Of Justice

102 Petty France

London

SW1H 9AJ

UK

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

22/10/2025

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
32412000 Communications network Local area network
72315000 Data network management and support services Data-processing services
72315200 Data network management services Data network management and support services
72315100 Data network support services Data network management and support services
32415000 Ethernet network Local area network
50312310 Maintenance of data network equipment Maintenance and repair of computer equipment
32420000 Network equipment Networks
32424000 Network infrastructure Network equipment
30237110 Network interfaces Parts, accessories and supplies for computers
32427000 Network system Network equipment
32428000 Network upgrade Network equipment
32400000 Networks Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
32412100 Telecommunications network Communications network
32430000 Wide area network Networks
72720000 Wide area network services Computer network services

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

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.

About the buyer

Main contact:
evolve.portfolio@justice.gov.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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