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Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire Authority

WAN & LAN Maintenance Services

Communications EquipmentCPV 32000000 32400000
Value£118k
Deadline24 Sept 2021
Published3 Nov 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 3 Nov 2021ClosedCloses 24 Sept 2021
Contract value in context
£118ktotal 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.

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The brief

WAN and LAN are business critical systems, without it the Service would not be able to operate.

Due to unforeseen delays in the transition to a new service provider, a short term 12 month contract extension has been awarded to the existing service provider to maintain these business critical systems.

The contract extensions are permissible under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Regulation 32(2)(c) if the following criteria are met: "32(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:- [...] (c) insofar as is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

WAN and LAN are business critical systems

WAN and LAN are business critical systems, without it the Service would not be able to operate.

02

Due to unforeseen delays in the transition

Due to unforeseen delays in the transition to a new service provider, a short term 12 month contract extension has been awarded to the existing service provider to maintain these business critical systems.

03

"32(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication

"32(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:- [...].

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