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Manchester Metropolitan University

Maintenance and Support of Cisco Networking hardware and software - AWARD

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50312300
Value£255,830
Awarded17 Oct 2018
Published28 Nov 2018
RegionUK-wide

£255,830 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£256ktotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University has a large Cisco networking infrastructure that provides wired and wireless networking across all Campus buildings.

As part of provisioning a fit for purpose large enterprise network for students and staff we must ensure that all equipment is resilient, secure, licensed and supportable, all via a relevant and active maintenance agreement contract.

The universities current contract for maintenance and support of Cisco networking hardware and software is ending 31.10.18.

Therefore we are looking for a new contract for a 13 month duration starting 1.11.18.

Cisco are our manufacturer of choice and therefore to be successful in the role the supplier must be a affiliated partner of Cisco.

The university has an infrastructure of Cisco Hardware physically located and operational across a number of University Campus sites.

Suppliers who are interested in bidding should complete and return Document 1 and 2 by the closing date.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

As part of provisioning a fit

As part of provisioning a fit for purpose large enterprise network for students and staff we must ensure that all equipment is resilient, secure, licensed and supportable, all via a relevant and active maintenance agreement contract.

02

The universities current contract for maintenance

The universities current contract for maintenance and support of Cisco networking hardware and software is ending 31.10.18.

03

Cisco are our manufacturer of choice

Cisco are our manufacturer of choice and therefore to be successful in the role the supplier must be a affiliated partner of Cisco.

04

Suppliers who are interested in bidding should

Suppliers who are interested in bidding should complete and return Document 1 and 2 by the closing date.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Cisco partner statussays mustPlatform & vendor partner status
Cisco are our manufacturer of choice and therefore to be successful in the role the supplier must be a affiliated partner of Cisco.

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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