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Greater Manchester Combined Authority

GMCA 1240 GM One Network - Consultancy Services for Programme Delivery

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£96k
Awarded27 Sept 2024
Published25 Nov 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£96ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

GM One Network is a single active network infrastructure across a large proportion of public sector organisations, enabling network services across Greater Manchester to be provided more efficiently, securely, and flexibly.

The following activities will be supported during the term 1.

GM One Network Activities - Snagging left over from the Programme - Early life service tuning - Monthly Service Reviews including supplier and contract management (Cisco, VM02, Engage ESM, Telent) - Manage any partner related queries, changes - Monthly Collaboration Board Reviews - Monthly finance review - Continued review and evolution of GM One Network Product e.g.

SecureEdge, Non LFFN Connectivity.

TfGM Stockport Interchange - Continued development of future opportunities in addition to health there are a number of Partner related additional projects starting to appear such as Bury Public Wi-Fi, Highways junction changes - Develop broader GM awareness and opportunities with GM Public Sector and preparing for new Partner onboarding - Exploring options for post the initial term, as by next year we will need to start shaping this up.

Possibly some form of discovery to gauge capabilities across the partners and some form of option paper 2.

Other GM One Network Related Project Work - Complete Non LFFN contracting, mobilise programme and manage programme - Follow on work from the Secure Edge Discovery 3.

Other Non-GM One Network Related Work - Support the 5GIR Programme - Manage the GM One Network related 5GIR implementation - Support the Policy Leads with other Infrastructure related programmes

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Exploring options for post the initial term

Exploring options for post the initial term, as by next year we will need to start shaping this up.

02

Support the 5GIR Programme

Support the 5GIR Programme.

03

Support the Policy Leads with other Infrastructure

Support the Policy Leads with other Infrastructure related programmes.

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

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Cisco partner statusPlatform & vendor partner status
Monthly Service Reviews including supplier and contract management (Cisco, VM02, Engage ESM, Telent)

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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Source & provenance
OCID
115643af-84fa-48a2-83a6-85f32daffbd3
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
GMCA001-DN753434-33744562
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