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Department for Education

IP Telephony Services - con_11015

Communications EquipmentCPV 32000000 32500000 32550000 32551000
Value£180k
Awarded1 Jul 2021
Published28 Jul 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£180ktotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Radio, TV & Communications Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 6,686 valued Radio, TV & Communications Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The IP telephony footprint at the Department for Education has reduced by almost 90% following a change in strategy and has been further escalated by the need to appropriately respond to COVID.

However, there is still residual requirement to provide IP telephony services for a number of use cases, which will be supplied under this Call-Off Contract: - Meeting Room Phones - Resilience Desk Phones - Facilities/Reception Phones - Ministerial Phones - Fax Lines IP telephony services will be delivered to each of the department's sites directly via public internet connections.

The Call-Off Contract will also include the supply of pre-configured hardware to support the IP telephony offering, alongside implementation services, DDI porting and end user admin training.

Initial term - 14/07/21 - 13/07/24 Extension Options - 2 years (1 + 1).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The IP telephony footprint at the Department

The IP telephony footprint at the Department for Education has reduced by almost 90% following a change in strategy and has been further escalated by the need to appropriately respond to COVID.

02

However, there is still residual requirement

However, there is still residual requirement to provide IP telephony services for a number of use cases, which will be supplied under this Call-Off Contract:.

03

The Call-Off Contract will also include

The Call-Off Contract will also include the supply of pre-configured hardware to support the IP telephony offering, alongside implementation services, DDI porting and end user admin training.

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Source & provenance
OCID
56843fd4-a6a5-4f12-a3f9-7b651f5aae40
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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