707986450 DE&S Intranet Request For Information

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Request for Information (RFI): DE&S Intranet Context Brief: The DE&S intranet provides an essential mechanism for the dissemination of DE&S corporate communications, information, and guidance to DE&S staff.

The intranet is key element of the DE&S internal communications channel mix, and increasingly so over the last number of years with staff primarily working from home.

This will continue as smarter working will mean higher levels of remote working in comparison to pre-pandemic levels.

The current platform (Intranet) sits on SharePoint Online Classic.

DE&S is exploring options for the future of the intranet to meet the needs of its employees now and for the future.

Purpose: To gather information on the different digital solutions that are available in the marketplace and to understand their capability to deliver the key requirements detailed in this RFI.

Information Requested Disclaimer: The information detailed in this RFI is requested to inform a potential future procurement strategy.

No formal procurement process has been launched.

Any resulting procurement will be conducted competitively, and all information provided in response to this RFI is provided on a non-committal basis and will be held in confidence.

All information in this document should be treated as OFFICIAL For more information, including key functional requirements please see the Request for Information attachment contained within the DSP Opportunity listing link here: https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=56329 Submitting an RFI Response: If you would like to respond to this RFI, you must do so by 23:59 pm on the 26 June 2023.

You must submit this information to the named contact point Laura Burridge desdigital-corecomrclteam@mod.gov.uk as detailed in the Defence Sourcing Portal Opportunity Listing. https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=56329 You must not take this Request for Information to mean confirmation that the Authority shall launch a procurement or award a contract for this requirement.

The Authority is publishing this announcement without any commitment to issue a tender or place a contract.

Accordingly, any expenditure, work or effort undertaken before contract award is a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential suppliers.