The top prior information notices

This week’s featured PIN

Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Title: Pre-tender for the provision of e-disclosure and review services
The lowdown: CCS has unveiled plans to put in place a framework covering electronic (e) disclosure and review services. “eDisclosure” is a term used in litigation to describe the process through which digital documents, including emails, texts, and databases, are obtained. The framework is expected to be worth £18m and would allow Whitehall departments and the wider public sector to access eDisclosure services.
Deadline for registering interest: N/A
Value: £18m

The best of the rest

Buyer: NHS Supply Chain
Title: Pre-tender for a range of office supplies including technology hardware, hardware consumables  and maintenance and repairs services
Deadline for registering interest: N/A
Value: £30m

Buyer: Scotland Excel
Title: Pre-tender of a framework agreement to renew the supply, installation and services for online school payments
Deadline for registering interest: 13 March 2020
Value: £3m

Buyer: Air Command
Title: Pre-tender for an e-learning solution
Deadline for registering interest: 19 March 2020
Value: £N/A

Buyer: Department for Transport
Title: Pre-tender to deliver sensor technology including hardware and supporting software elements for London North Eastern Railway (LNER)
Deadline for registering interest: 10 March 2020
Value: £N/A

The top tenders

This week’s featured tender

Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Title: Cyber services including quality assurance and testing services for IT systems
The lowdown: CCS is inviting suppliers to apply to be listed on the third iteration of its cyber services framework. The framework is worth an estimated £153m, covers quality assurance and testing services, and will remain in place for three years. Details on how to apply are available here.
Deadline: 11 February 2023
Value: £153m

The best of the rest

Buyer: Food Standards Agency
Title: Strategic Surveillance delivery including the optimised use of open data to identify emerging food and feed risks
Deadline: 11 March 2020
Value: £3m

Buyer: HM Land Registry
Title: Partner specialising in Business Analysis to deliver digital service development
Deadline: 6 March 2020
Value: £2.6m

Buyer: Transport Scotland
Title: Charge Point Network Operator (CPNO) services
Deadline: 27 March 2020
Value: £2.5m

Buyer: Crown Commercial Service
Title: Development and implementation of an Identification and Access Management (IDAM) system
Deadline: 6 March 2020
Value: £1m

The top awards

This week’s featured award

Buyer: Leeds Council
Supplier: BT
Title: Design and implement a full fibre gigabit capable network
The lowdown: BT has secured the single largest award of the week: a £20.3m deal to develop a full-fibre network linking up 1,400 public sector sites across Leeds. According to the contract notice, the deal is “based on two components, an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) for the use of the network fibre elements for 25 years and a services contract for the hardware and managed service overlay with an initial term of seven years and option to extend by three years”.
Award date: 21 February 2020
Value: £20.3m

The best of the rest

Buyer: Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation
Supplier: Various
Title: Office supplies
Award date: 24 February 2020
Value: £200m

Buyer: Red Kite Learning Trust
Supplier: Various
Title: Provision of learning solutions, parental contribution software, Mobile Device Management (MDM) software, IT network solutions, cloud based VoIP telephony solutions
Award date: 25 February 2020
Value: £20m

Buyer: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Supplier: BT
Title: Network extension for critical national infrastructure service providers
Award date: 27 February 2020
Value: £10.7m

Buyer: Home Office
Supplier: Airwave Solutions
Title: Provision of Emergency Services Network including a public safety radio communications service for the Police
Award date: 26 February 2020
Value: £5.4m

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