Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust ICT Managed Service

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

We haven’t measured a rhythm for Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust in IT Services yet — so we’re not going to guess at one.

This procurement encompasses a full outsource of the ICT service for the Trust schools and Head office to a single supplier.

At the sole discretion of the Trust any future schools that the Trust may incorporate into the Trust will also be added to the ICT contract.

Any additional schools will co-terminate to the end same end date of the initial contract.

Further details regarding timescales are noted below but in summary this is advertised as a maximum 5 year service with start and end dates as follows: • Service start date - 1st April 2022 • Service end date - 31st March 2027 The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT will then receive a detailed set of requirements.

For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include all equipment and service regarding ICT, including but not be limited to; • strategic advice and direction to the Trust regarding ICT • 24hrs a day 365 days per year monitoring and management service • a core 42 week onsite service with pro-active and re-active visits • service desk • local staffing that bidders deem necessary to deliver the SLA • responsibility for design, specification, installation and management of all ICT infrastructure • supply of goods and services based on an agreed Best Value (BV) approach • management of all ICT against an agreed SLA • management of 3rd parties • relevant management, patching and reporting • training - technical and curriculum as necessary • expectation that the provider will drive innovation • risk registers and inventory management • collective partnership targets matched to the objectives of the Trust The ITT will also require the Strategic ICT partner to provide an education complaint filtering service to the schools.

This will be detailed further in the ITT but bidders should assume that compliance with e-safety / PREVENT duty and IWF standards will be required, as will filtering at both school level and remote mobile users with a school / Trust owned device.

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.