United Kingdom-Leicester: Corporate Dark Fibre Wide Area Network

Type of document: Contract Awards
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (2020/S 086-205638/EN)
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Procedure: Open procedure
Type of bid required: Not applicable

Contract award notice
Supplies

Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Official name: Leicester City Council
Postal address: Bosworth House, 9-15 Princess Road West
Town: Leicester
Postal code: LE1 6TH
Country: United Kingdom
Contact Person: Rebecca Cowan
Telephone: +44 1164541272
Email: rebecca.cowan@leicester.gov.uk
Internet address(es):
Main address:
Address of the buyer profile:

I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
General public services

Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title: Corporate Dark Fibre Wide Area Network

Reference number: DN458791
II.1.2) Main CPV code: 32400000
II.1.3) Type of contract Supplies
II.1.4) Short Description: The Council seeks a suitably experienced organisation to supply Leicester City Council (LCC) with their own dark fibre circuits (‘infrastructure’) to provide connectivity between LCC sites rather than via a third party network.
The purpose of the contract is to give LCC unilateral control and virtually unlimited network bandwidth scalability for the future to support the acceleration of the Councils digital vision.
As an absolute minimum, the Council expects any solution to be capable of delivering reliable, resilient and continuous ultra-fast and low latency fibre connectivity.
The planning, design and construction of the network will be the responsibility of the provider, who will further be responsible for all associated implementation and running costs.
The Council is not intending to have any responsibility for supporting the dark fibre network and thus the provider must provide its own maintenance programme to ensure the 24/7 operation of the network.
The Council seeks a supplier that has experience of similar deployments including designing and implementing demonstrably innovative dark fibre solutions in other large UK Cities.
II.1.6) Information about lots:
The contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement(excluding VAT)
Lowest offer: 2000000/ Highest offer: 3100000 taken into consideration
Currency: GBP

II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
Nuts code: UKF21
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Council seeks a suitably experienced organisation to supply Leicester City Council (LCC) with their own dark fibre circuits (‘infrastructure’) to provide connectivity between LCC sites rather than via a third party network.
The purpose of the contract is to give LCC unilateral control and virtually unlimited network bandwidth scalability for the future to support the acceleration of the Councils digital vision.
As an absolute minimum, the Council expects any solution to be capable of delivering reliable, resilient and continuous ultra-fast and low latency fibre connectivity.
The planning, design and construction of the network will be the responsibility of the provider, who will further be responsible for all associated implementation and running costs.
The Council is not intending to have any responsibility for supporting the dark fibre network and thus the provider must provide its own maintenance programme to ensure the 24/7 operation of the network.
The Council seeks a supplier that has experience of similar deployments including designing and implementing demonstrably innovative dark fibre solutions in other large UK Cities.

II.2.5)Award criteria

II.2.11) Information about options
Options no
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement(GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:2020/S 022-047499
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: DN458791
Title: Corporate Dark Fibre Wide Area Network

A contract/lot is awarded yes
V.2) Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract:2020-04-27
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received:3
Number of tenders received from SMEs:0
Number of tenders received from other EU Member States:0
Number of tenders received from non-EU Member States:0
Number of tenders received by electronic means:3
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Official name: CityFibre Ltd
Postal address: 15 Bedford Street
Town: London
Postal code: WC2E 9HE
Country: United Kingdom
Nuts code: UKF21
Internet address: www.cityfibre.com
The contractor is an SME no

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot(excluding VAT)
Lowest offer: 2000000/ Highest offer: 3100000 taken into consideration
Currency: GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be subcontracted
Value or proportion likely to be subcontracted to third parties
Proportion: 60 %
Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:Granemore Group as the Principal Contractor for this specific dark fibre WAN project

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Official name: Leicester City Council
Town: Leicester
Country: United Kingdom

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:
2020-04-29