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University of Sunderland

Provision of Residential Internet Provision and associated Equipment for the University of Sunderland - AWARD

IT ServicesCPV 72411000 32420000
Value£833k
Awarded6 Jun 2022
Published14 Jul 2022
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£833ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University are looking to outsource the entire Residential Internet Service to a supplier, inclusive of connectivity, hardware and incident management.

The purpose of this requirement is to reduce the reliance on the UoS Technical Services Team and introduce a high level of business continuity for this essential provision to students.

The university are looking for innovative solutions which will also be to help future proof the provision, for the next iteration of Wi-Fi, broadband and related services.

The University are looking for a provider that has previous experience with other Higher Education Institutions.

The University would also like a 24x365 Helpdesk for student queries and issues to be raised using a single log-in, preferably allowing the ability to access Wi-Fi services across all accommodation.

The provision, as a minimum, must provide Wi-Fi and wired connection options to all rooms, with WiFi 6 and a minimum Speed of at least 200Mbps.

It is expected that these minimum speeds will increase over the life of the contract to meet the various 'change in use' that comes with technological developments.

Therefore, the solution should be able to facilitate the increase is usage and bandwidth etc.

A Wi-Fi provision to communal and open space would also be required.

The University would expect this service to be monitored effectively with a filtering and reporting service, as well as a disaster recovery procedure in place to ensure there is minimal downtime for students Wi-Fi.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The provision, as a minimum, must provide

The provision, as a minimum, must provide Wi-Fi and wired connection options to all rooms, with WiFi 6 and a minimum Speed of at least 200Mbps.

02

Therefore, the solution should be able

Therefore, the solution should be able to facilitate the increase is usage and bandwidth etc.

03

The University would expect this service

The University would expect this service to be monitored effectively with a filtering and reporting service, as well as a disaster recovery procedure in place to ensure there is minimal downtime for students Wi-Fi.

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Stage
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Buyer ref
IT-158-271-UOS/ResiISP/0921 - AWARD
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