description: An Accounting Software system to meet statutory requirements.

description: Software package and information systems

description: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

title: Accounting Software

description:
Award to supply a new Accounting Software system to meet statutory requirements.
The contract will be a 2-year initial term with the option to extend for 1 year.

description: Energy-management services

description: Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents.

BANK OF ENGLAND

locality: LONDON

streetAddress: Threadneedle Street

description: Body governed by public law

description: Economic affairs

legalName: BANK OF ENGLAND

High Court of England and Wales

legalName: High Court of England and Wales

Normative AB

region: SE

locality: Stockholm

countryName: Sweden

streetAddress: Folkungagatan 44, 118 26

legalName: Normative AB

schemeEntered: Normative AB

description:
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). Candidates are advised this procurement will be conducted via the Bank's e-tendering portal, Proactis, which can be accessed via the following website. The event number is REQ/1000260
https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
1. Please register for a user account to gain access to the procurement documentation for this opportunity. If you are already registered, and are unable to find the event, then please carry out the second point.
2. Send an e-mail to: Technology.contracts@bankofengland.co.uk to be added to the event. Please title your e-mail "REQ/1000260 Energy Accounting Software Tender" and include the full Company name and Organisation ID from Proactis, to allow us to attach you to the tender.


status: planning

country: GB

countryName: United Kingdom

scheme: CPV

description: Health and social work services

title: D2 Two 2-bed Collaborative Children's Homes  for Young People with Complex Mental Health needs

scheme: UKPGA

description:
The D2 Collaborative Children's home vision and approach:
The aim is to deliver robust, needs-based provision that supports the health, therapeutic, care, and education needs of children and young people.
This includes providing stable, intensive therapeutic support with trained care staff who follow consistent, multi-agency support plans.
The approach looks to reduce fragmented care by establishing clearer joint processes and escalation pathways across Health and Social Care.
In partnership with providers the service should be flexible and dynamic, offering wraparound support that continues as the child or young person transitions to their next home.

mainProcurementCategory: services

Derby City Council

locality: Derby

postalCode: DE1 2FS

streetAddress: The Council House - Corporation Street

description: Public authority - sub-central government

scheme: GB-PPON

format: text/html

description: Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

documentType: marketEngagementNotice

type: engagement

status: scheduled

description:
A provider event was held in April:
Key Details of the Event
•	Date and Time: Thursday 10th April, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11.30 AM
•	Location: Virtual
•	Target Audience: Providers of Ofsted-registered residential care for children in care within the D2N2 region and neighbouring areas.
•	Eligibility: Providers interested in the delivery of the tender.
•	Attendees: 20 providers attended
Purpose of the Event
The primary aim of the event was:
	Information sharing of Derby City's and Derbyshire County Councils intention to go to market for a provider to deliver the D2 Collaborative Specialist Children's Homes model in partnership with the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board / Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
	Scene setting and key updates since November 2024. Derby City Council will provide the property with planning permission granted for 12 months initially with a view to extending this further. The provider to provide accommodation and support for Derbyshire County council.
	The D2 Collaborative Children's home vision and approach - The aim is to deliver robust, needs-based provision that supports the health, therapeutic, care, and education needs of children and young people. This includes providing stable, intensive therapeutic support with trained care staff who follow consistent, multi-agency support plans. The approach looks to reducing fragmented care by establishing clearer joint processes and escalation pathways across Health and Social Care. In partnership with providers, the service should be flexible and dynamic, offering wraparound support that continues as the child or young person transitions to their next home.
	Key principles - The goal is to provide empowering, nurturing, and compassionate care that is evidence-based (e.g., trauma-informed, Positive Behaviour Support) and centred on the child or young person. Care will be solution-focused, built on strong relationships, and delivered by a consistent, skilled staff team. Staff will have expertise in neurodiversity, communication, and mental health. There will be a continuous commitment to innovation and collaborative improvement of the service offer. Open and transparent partnership working across all agencies. Commitment to delivery of stability of placement, with move on to any other setting being in the best interests of the child and agreed by the Team around the Child. Commitment to taking a Think Family approach. Assessment and future placement planning, to ensure a future placement meets the longer-term needs of the child /young person. SEND and physical needs met of all children through partners working collaboratively to achieve this. All homes to be safe and offer a fit for purpose environment that is agreed by all partners.
	Indicative Timelines: It was confirmed that the tender is expected to be released in June 2025. Providers were directed to relevant websites where the tender will be advertised and were encouraged to register for updates to stay informed.
	Key Contacts: Main points of contact for both Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council were shared with providers to support any future enquiries.
	Provider Queries - Location: Providers raised questions regarding geographical requirements. The Local Authorities clarified that there is no restriction on the location of a provider's head office. The primary concern is the delivery of services and ensuring that the two homes proposed are within the specified distance parameters outlined in the tender.
A copy of the Powerpoint presentation shown at the event is available.
For further information, any additional comments you wish to make,  or for an informal discussion please contact:
Derby City Council contact - ChildrensCommissioningAndMarketManagement@derby.gov.uk
Derbyshire County Council contact - CS.ContractsChildreninCare@derbyshire.gov.uk
no later than 31st May 2025.
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION TO TENDER.
Tender documents will be issued in June/July 2025 and will be available at www.eastmidstenders.org

initiationType: tender


status: planned

description: Hire of industrial vehicles with driver

title: Hire of Plant & Machinery Framework 2026

description: This Framework will be for the hiring of plant vehicles and associated machinery to the Council, both with and without an operator. The requirement includes heavy plant machinery such as excavators, gully emptiers, sweepers, telehandlers, rollers and dumpers etc., both with and without operators.

Carmarthenshire County Council

locality: Carmarthen

postalCode: SA31 1AD

streetAddress: County Hall

description: Welsh devolved regulations apply

description: Pipeline notice on Find a Tender

documentType: plannedProcurementNotice


measure: bids

measure: smeBids

name: NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

status: active

name: Petals - The Baby Loss Counselling Charity

status: cancelled

description:
The counselling service focusses on supporting women, birthing people and their partners who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress following a stillbirth, second trimester miscarriage, termination for medical reasons, recurrent miscarriages, neonatal loss, birth trauma, pregnancy after loss or early miscarriage (accessed only via professional referral). Access will be by professional referral or self-referral basis.
The delivery model will involve a triage session followed (if required) by a fixed number of counselling sessions. Patient outcomes will be captured using Core10 as an assessment method, with a minimum key performance benchmark of 50% for Reliable Improvement.
By providing support for mild to moderate mental following pregnancy-related loss support, this specialist service will become embedded in the commissioned perinatal mental health pathway within the integrated care system.
Contract period will be 01/10/2025 to 31/09/2028, there will be no option to extend the contract.
 NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.  The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice.  The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider.
The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

Quality

type: quality

Cost

type: cost

description: The service is carried out across Suffolk and North East Essex ICB area

title: Specialised counselling for pregnancy-related bereavement and baby loss across Suffolk and north east Essex.

status: complete

description:
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice.   This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.  For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.  This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.
Contract award date:  25th April 2025
The dates between which the services are intended to be provided are:  01/10/2025 - 31/09/2028
Lifetime value of the contract is anticipated to be: Value excluding VAT:  £286,800
There was no review during the standstill period.

scheme: CELEX

description: Intention is to commission a specialised bereavement counselling service that meets the needs of women or the birthing person and their partners, who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress because of pregnancy-related bereavement or baby loss. Access to the service will be provided via professional referral and self-referral. The service is accessible following a stillbirth, second trimester miscarriage, terminations for medical reasons, recurrent miscarriages, neonatal loss, birth trauma, pregnancy after loss, and early miscarriage (by professional referral only). A fixed number of counselling sessions will be provided either virtually or face-to-face based on parent choice.

description: Health services

procurementMethod: limited

procurementMethodDetails: Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

procurementMethodRationale:
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period.
Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 8th May 2025 (8 working days following publication of intention to award notice). They should be submitted in writing to procurement@snee.nhs.uk.
This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Award decision-makers: Richard Watson, Executive Director on the recommendation of the Mental Health Multi-Disciplinary Team.
•	No conflicts of interest, or potential conflicts of interest, were declared by any decision makes.
The decision to award this contract in line with Direct Award Process C was based on evaluation against the five required key criteria as follows:
•	Quality and Innovation - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering a safe and effective service as required by the specification and contract they are currently delivering.  This criterion was reviewed in line with the Quality Impact Assessment.
•	Value - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering value to the integrated care system and the cost of change would not be outweighed by the potential benefit of a new provider.
•	Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is positively impacting on the integrated care system through their integration and collaboration delivered as a requirement of the specification or alternative elements linked to the delivery.
•	Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is meeting needs of the population to ensure equitable access and choice as required by the specification and contract.  This criterion was reviewed in line with the Equality Impact Assessment.
•	Social Value - Part Assured - SNEE ICB are partly assured that the provider is delivering in line with the SNEE Green Plan, supporting with the implementation of carbon reduction and increase in initiatives which positively impact on the wider determinants of health.  This criterion was reviewed in line with the Sustainability Impact Assessment.

description: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

locality: Ipswich

streetAddress: Endeavour House, Russell Road

description: Body governed by public law

scheme: COFOG

description: Health

scheme: GB-NHS

locality: Cambridge

postalCode: CB25 9TU

scale: sme

scheme: GB-CHC

currency: GBP


Quality criterion 1

description: Capacity and Resources - 25 Points

Quality criterion 2

description: Planned and Ad Hoc Inspections - 20 Points

Quality criterion 3

description: Defects (Building Structural Defects Scenario) - 15 Points

Quality criterion 4

description: Health & Safety Risk Analysis - 15 Points

Quality criterion 5

description: Management of the Framework - 25 Points

weightingDescription: Quality carries an overall weighting of 100 points. The Price provided by the supplier as stated in Annex 2 will be divided by their total Quality score to arrive at a Price Per Quality Point.

region: UKL

description: Structural engineering consultancy services

title: Structural Inspections & Minor Design Services Framework

description: Not published

documentType: conflictOfInterest

description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

documentType: tenderNotice

description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

noLotsDivisionRationale: With the need to ensure a consistent standard to the structural inspections and engineering design services, it was considered that by dividing the framework into more than one Lot, the framework would not be attractive to potential service provider.  Furthermore, the arrangement (single source framework) may suit an SME based in or around Hampshire.

type: open

method: withoutReopeningCompetition

description: The pricing strategy for this framework is measured rates for planned investigations, and further investigations for loft spaces, lighting grids, chimneys and freestanding walls, and minor capital design projects with a contract value not less than £25,000. The remainder of the framework will be on a time charge basis working to an agreed target fee. The time charges will be as the Tendered rates.

buyerCategories:
Hampshire County Council
Reading Borough Council
Isle of Wight Council
City, District, Borough, Town and Parish Councils, and any successor authorities following LGR, across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight will also be able to access the proposed new arrangement.

scheme: GB-ITL

description:
Hampshire County Council (HCC) undertakes a large and varied programme of work involving maintenance, new build, rationalisation and refurbishment of the County Council's and its clients' built estate, met by a variety of arrangements. As part of its asset and Risk Management programme, the County Council undertakes structural inspections of the built estate on a five-year rolling programme. The programme also includes specific items such as chimneys and boiler flues over 2m high, play and boundary walls, retaining walls, lighting grids, lofts, and other hidden roof spaces.
Historically this programme of works has been delivered by a single supplier Framework.
Hampshire County Council will be the lead contracting authority, with the framework available for use by the following contracting authorities: Hampshire County Council, the Isle of Wight Council and Reading Borough Council.
Following evaluation of the compliant tenders, and approval of the outcome, the Authority intends to appoint a single supplier to the Framework.
The Framework Agreement is due to commence on 1st January 2026 and will be for a period of 4 years to 31st December 2029. The Authority may enter into Call-off Contracts with a Framework Supplier at any time during the term of the Framework Agreement, up until the date of expiry, by following the Call-off Procedure as detailed in this ITT and the Framework Specification.
Call-off contracts under this framework agreement will be awarded by placing a call-off order for the services as and when required.
Full details of the requirement can be found in the Specification at Annex 1.
All Tenderers must have signed and completed Annex 5 - TUPE Confidentiality Undertaking Template by the Clarification deadline. Tenderers who submit a tender without having completed and returned Annex 5 as an attachment via the Intend Correspondence function before the deadline for clarification questions (10th September 2025 at 17:00), will have their submission rejected.

riskDetails: As this is the procurement of a Framework Agreement, it is unlikely the LGR will be a risk to the Framework, however Contracting Authorities will need to consider the implications for their call-off contracts.

financialTerms: Hampshire County Council will make payment within 30 days for valid, undisputed invoices.

electronicSubmissionPolicy: allowed

description: There are no fees relating to this framework.

monetaryValue: award

procurementMethod: open

procurementMethodDetails: Open procedure

Hampshire County Council

locality: Winchester

postalCode: SO23 8UJ

streetAddress: High St, The Castle

noEngagementNoticeRationale:
The market has already been alerted and market engagement has been undertaken in the form of a Prior Information Notice (PIN) under PCR 2015 to alert the market and potential suppliers about the upcoming opportunity. This was issued on 22nd January 2025.
The market consists of a variety of national/multinational organisation providing multidiscipline professional estate services, and local companies specialising in the provision of structural inspections and design services.


region: UK

description: Other services

title: UK3 - Planned Procurement Notice

format: application/octet-stream

description: Statement of Requirement

documentType: biddingDocuments

description:
The Authority requires a contract for the provision of facilities for three Military Operational Surgical Team Training (MOSTT) courses per annum, with the ability to provide up to two more MOSTT courses per annum. Each course shall accommodate a maximum of 50 participants (6 teams of 5 participants); and 20 faculty.
The Supplier shall provide:
1. A guaranteed stable high-speed Wi-Fi connection and the hardware to support external instructors joining sessions virtually.
2. Prepared, maintained and dispose of up to 6 (fresh or thawed from frozen) full human cadavers.
3. Prepared surgical set per cadaveric table that replicates the military Damage Control Surgery operating sets and the neurosurgical operating sets.
4. Receipt of delivery and storage while the course is in progress of military specific equipment from other sites for approximately 5 boxes.
5. A breakout room for delegates to relax and take breaks and receive catering.
The Supplier must conform to the Human Tissue Act 2004.
Cyber Security: The MoD has a duty to protect itself from Cyber threats and now we extend this to Suppliers we engage with.  As an extension of the Government’s Cyber Essentials Scheme, the MoD working together with Industry and other Government Departments, have developed a more robust Cyber Security Model, under the umbrella of the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP).  All prime contractors must have the cyber security controls specified in DEF Stan 05-138 (Cyber Security for Defence Suppliers), as appropriate to the cyber risk level specified in the contract.
The Authority has determined the level of risk at Very Low - RAR- 250407A04 as defined in DEF Stan 05-138.  In order to do business with the MOD you must have the cyber security controls required as shown above.
More detail can be found in the attached Statement ofRequirement.

Ministry of Defence

locality: Lichfield

postalCode: WS14 9PY

streetAddress: DMS Whittington

description: Public authority - central government

name: PROVISION OF CADAVERIC FACILITIES AND RESOURCES IN SUPPORT OF THE DEFENCE MEDICAL SERVICES DELIVERED MILITARY OPERATIONAL SPECIALIST TEAM TRAINING COURSE CADAVERIC PRACTICUM

description: Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender


Price

type: price

weight: percentageExact

description: Geological and geophysical consultancy services

title: ES2065 - Monitoring and Management of Council Land for BNG

description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

description: Wiltshire Council aim to commission an organisation that can be the designated Responsible Body, able to enter into conservation covenants (legal agreements) with Wiltshire Council as a landowner, to formally monitor the delivery of Biodiversity Net Gain on Council-owned land. A Responsible Body needs to be in place before we can register the BNG units that we generate from our conservation activities. These can then be potentially sold to developers as part of their BNG delivery commitments, easing the path of housing projects through Planning and unlocking the delivery of new homes in Wiltshire.

Wiltshire Council

locality: Trowbridge

postalCode: BA14 8JN

description: Public authority - sub-central government

description: Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

description:
Wiltshire Council will be holding a Market Engagement Event for interested tenderers for an upcoming Procurement. This procurement will be to seek and appoint an organisation to act as a Responsible Body, to enter into a Conservation Covenant with Wiltshire Council. Thus to enable the registration of Wiltshire Council owned land for sale of Biodiversity Net Gain habitat and hedgerow units.
This Market Engagement Event will be held via Microsoft Teams, to secure a spot onto the event, you will need to email the following details; Attendees Name and Organisation Name, to the following email address. Benjamin.keen@wiltshire.gov.uk
Please note, that a maximum of two individuals per organisation are to join.
The Market Engagement Event will be held on Friday 14/03/2025 at 10:00am until 11:00am.
Engagement deadline will be set to Wednesday 12th March at 5pm.
How to register onto the Central Digital Platform: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-act-2023-short-guides/suppliers-how-to-register-your-organisation-and-first-administrator-on-find-a-tender-in-three-easy-steps-html


rel: prev

description: SEND

title: SEND

description: SEND

description: Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

Surrey County Council

locality: Kingston upon Thames

postalCode: KT1 2DN

description: Regional or local authority

description: General public services

legalName: Surrey County Council

XPERT CARS

locality: Epsom

streetAddress: Xpert Cars Ltd

legalName: XPERT CARS


name: NHS HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

title: Community Ophthalmology Service

description:
The provider will deliver Community Ophthalmology services for patients registered to a HIOW GP or those service users for which the ICB is otherwise responsible, including Glaucoma.
This contract award has been made following direct award process B.
The estimated lifetime value of the contract is £49,981.28.
The services will be provided from 1st of June 2025 to the 31st of May 2026.
This is an existing service and new provider.

name: No realistic alternative provider / Patient Choice

title: Ophthalmology

description: Community Ophthalmology Service

description: Ophthalmologist services

procurementMethodRationale:
'This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)
Regulations 2023.
For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.'
The decision was approved by the ICB board/committees:
HIOW Spending Control Group - 6th of Feb 2025
HIOW Procurement Group - 10th of April 2025
HIOW Executive Committee - 2nd of May 2025
No Conflicts of Interest were declared by those individuals making the decision.

locality: Eastleigh

postalCode: SO50 5PB

streetAddress: Omega House 112 Southampton Road

description: Body governed by public law

description: Health

Alpha Health Group

locality: Southampton

postalCode: SO19 9GH

streetAddress: Weston Lane

scheme: GB-COH

legalName: Alpha Health Group

NHS England

locality: London

legalName: NHS England

title: Community Ophthalmology Service


description:
TSD are seeking a supplier of Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) spares and other specialist equipment associated with AGL including the calibration of test equipment for a period of 5 years. LLAOL will if required retain the right to purchase spares from other suppliers if it deems it necessary during this contract. This will be a 2 supplier, zero-value framework contract, which will commence on 1st January 2026.
Please see tender documents for more information

variantPolicy: notAllowed

description: London Luton Airport

title: L24118-T-TC - AGL Lighting (Consumables)

documentType: economicSelectionCriteria

documentType: technicalSelectionCriteria

performanceTerms: Please see tender documents

electronicInvoicingPolicy: allowed

reviewDetails: Please see tender documents

description: Airport lighting

submissionMethod: electronicSubmission written

reductionCriteria: Please see tender documents

procurementMethod: selective

type: suitability

description: Please see tender documents

mainProcurementCategory: goods

procurementMethodDetails: Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition

London Luton Airport Operations Limited

locality: Luton

postalCode: LU2 9NU

streetAddress: Percival House, Percival Way

description: Airport-related activities

legalName: London Luton Airport Operations Limited

London Luton Airport - The Legal team

legalName: London Luton Airport - The Legal team

description: Please see tender documents


title: Lot 1 Praed Street

description: The successful supplier will be required to propose a curatorial vision for public art in the area, shortlist and commission a series of artists and locations, plan and oversee a coordinated phasing of the project, work alongside WCC officers, support the Council to engage with local stakeholders, and support the artists through design development and delivery. The allocated commission fee must also include the artist fee and build budget. The contract for lot 1 is planned to commence on or around early May 2025 for a period of two (2) years.

title: Lot 2 Westbourne Grove/Queensway

description: The successful supplier will be required to propose a curatorial vision for public art in the area, shortlist and commission a series of artists and locations, plan and oversee a coordinated phasing of the project, work alongside WCC officers, support the Council to engage with local stakeholders, and support the artists through design development and delivery. The allocated commission fee must also include the artist fee and build budget. The contract for lot 2 is planned to commence on or around early August 2025 for a period of two (2) years.

description: Administrative recreational, cultural and religious services

title: Public Art Agency Commission for Paddington - Bayswater High Streets Programme

description:
In 2023, the Westminster City Council (WCC) committed to improve local high streets outside of the West End. Paddington-Bayswater is the first area selected to take the programme forward. As part of a wider plan, a public art and cultural sub-programme has been established to address the significant deficiency of arts and cultural offer in the area.
The Council will publish an opportunity shortly to procure a contract with a Public Art Agency to lead on development and delivery a public art commission across the high streets of Praed Street, Queensway and Westbourne Grove in Paddington and Bayswater. This is not an invitation to tender.
The successful supplier(s) will be required to propose a curatorial vision for public art in the area, shortlist and commission a series of artists and locations, plan and oversee a coordinated phasing of the project, work alongside WCC officers, support WCC to engage with local stakeholders, and support the artists through design development and delivery.
The contract value for each lot is £240K. Bidders will be able to bid for one or both lots. The tender is expected to be published in early February 2025.

Westminster City Council

streetAddress: Westminster City Hall

description: Regional or local authority

description: General public services

legalName: Westminster City Council

noIdentifierRationale: notOnAnyRegister

description: To participate in tender opportunities with Westminster, please register on https://wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/


name: The Independent Office for Police Conduct

title: Managed WAN Services 2025 - New contract for existing Wide Area Network

status: unsuccessful

statusDetails: unsuccessful

description: Connectivity for each of our sites including 2 data centres, 6 regional sites and cloud connectivity providing the IOPC with the ability to use essential services securely ranging from internally hosted applications through to M365 and SAAS hosted services.

description: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

procurementMethodRationale:
1.  Deep Integrated and Bespoke Solution:
Redcentric successfully designed, migrated and implemented IOPC’s comprehensive network and data centre solution.  This includes managed site-to-site and client VPNs, resilient internet access, critical firewall configurations, and continuous monitoring.  These services are fully integrated across the IOPC Farnborough and Corsham Crown Hosting data centres, supporting both production and disaster recovery environments.  The solution is uniquely tailored to IOPC’s specific architecture and operational requirements.
2.  Maintaining Operational Resilience and Continuity
Operational resilience is fundamental to IOPC’s services and is intrinsically embedded within the existing solution.  Redcentric established automated failover between our data centres, configured secure MPLS connectivity, and implemented live replication services, all of which are actively supporting IOPC’s business-as-usual operations.  Transitioning these highly complex and interconnected services to a new provider would necessitate dismantling and revalidating live configurations, significantly increasing the risk of widespread system outages or degraded service performance.  Any switch would also risk the loss of critical configuration knowledge and jeopardise existing fail-safe mechanisms due to the intricate nature of the setup.
3.	Incompatibility with Existing Infrastructure and Investment
The IOPC has made substantial investment in equipment and service integrations that are intrinsically linked to RedCentric systems and operational frameworks.  introducing a new supplier at this stage would require reverse-engineering a live, bespoke solution.  This would not only incur significant duplicative costs for infrastructure and re-implementation but also render parts of the existing estate incompatible or redundant.  Such a change would undermine the value of the solution already delivered, severely disrupt essential business operations, and delay the realisation of long-term efficiencies envisaged in our original disaggregation strategy.
4.	Unacceptable Risk of Service Disruption:
A procurement reset, and the introduction of a new supplier would pose an unacceptable risk of service disruption, critical configuration conflicts, and a breakdown in operational continuity due to the need to reverse-engineer and replace a live, highly customised and deeply embedded technical solution.

description: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

postalCode: E14 4PU

streetAddress: 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf

description: Body governed by public law

description: General public services

locality: Canary Wharf

streetAddress: 10 South Colonnade