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Liverpool City Council

Further Competition under CCS Framework R3808 Lot2 & Lot3, Network Hardware, Support & Maintenance

IT ServicesCPV 72000000 72200000 72220000
Value£1.3m
Awarded16 Nov 2020
Published18 Mar 2021
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.3mtotal 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

Further competition via CCS Framework RM3808 to secure a supplier to deliver\r \r Liverpool City Council (LCC) is seeking to contract with a suitably qualified Supplier to provide network hardware, hardware support and professional services to LCC, ACC Liverpool Group (ACCL) and other Partner Organisations.\r \r ACCL comprises the M&S Bank Arena, Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre Liverpool.\r \r LCC may also utilise this contract to procure network hardware or support services for Partner Organisations such as Liverpool Schools as and when required.\r \r The purpose of the tender is to ensure that we continue to provide best value services to our end user and guests of LCC, ACCL and Partner Organisations.\r \r All future references to LCC should be inferred to mean LCC, ACCL and Partner Organisations unless specified otherwise.\r \r Mandatory Supplier Requirements\r \r The Supplier must be a Cisco Gold Partner.\r \r The Supplier must be able to provide Cisco Smartnet total care support.\r \r Hardware & Equipment\r \r The LCC and ACCL network infrastructure is currently comprised predominantly of Cisco hardware.\r \r Equipment procured under this contract is not limited to Cisco equipment.

The Supplier must be able to provide a range of equipment to meet the current and future needs of LCC.\r \r The Supplier must make use of Cisco ELLW (Cisco Enhanced Limited Lifetime Warranty WARR-EL-TD-LIFE-HW) where equipment is in a non-critical location and the SLA is appropriate.\r \r Full details were documented throughout the Tender pack

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Further competition via CCS Framework RM3808

Further competition via CCS Framework RM3808 to secure a supplier to deliver\r.

02

Liverpool City Council (LCC) is seeking

Liverpool City Council (LCC) is seeking to contract with a suitably qualified Supplier to provide network hardware, hardware support and professional services to LCC, ACC Liverpool Group (ACCL) and other Partner Organisations.\r.

03

LCC may also utilise this contract

LCC may also utilise this contract to procure network hardware or support services for Partner Organisations such as Liverpool Schools as and when required.\r.

04

The purpose of the tender is

The purpose of the tender is to ensure that we continue to provide best value services to our end user and guests of LCC, ACCL and Partner Organisations.\r.

05

All future references to LCC should

All future references to LCC should be inferred to mean LCC, ACCL and Partner Organisations unless specified otherwise.\r.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 1 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Cisco partner statussays mustPlatform & vendor partner status
The Supplier must be a Cisco Gold Partner.
Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
Further competition via CCS Framework RM3808 to secure a supplier to deliver

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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Buyer ref
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