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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: LEASED TRANSMISSION SERVICES – EXPORTING OPPORTUNITY
2. Awarding Authority: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills acting on behalf of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Opportunity type NATO
Industry Defence
Implementation and provision of leased transmission services.
The scope of the procurement is to implement and deliver resilient ethernet transport services, in the form of ethernet private lines (EPL), interconnecting approximately 85 edge nodes.
The expected target date of Contract Award is September 2023.
Delivery of services is required for 01 January 2025. Bidders are allowed to propose shorter service implementation timelines leading to an earlier acceptance of the services by the purchaser and earlierservice activation, but this will not generate any advantage in the bid evaluation process. The Purchaser reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the original schedule regardless of any alternative schedule the Bidder may propose as part of its proposal.
It is intended to award the contract for the provision of services for an initial baseline period of three 3 years with options for extention.
Given the fact that this IFB is issued prior to NATO funding committees authorisation, the purchaser reserves the right to make the decision regarding the contract baseline period any time prior to the contract award.
It is underlined that, subject to the provisions of Article 17 of the contract special provisions, in order to maintain coherence in the project management effort throughout the duration of the contract, the basiccontract shall cover for project management deliverables update and maintenance throughout the entirety of the period of performance to include optional years for services.
5. CPV Code(s): 72318000, 72000000, 72400000, 64220000
6. NUTS code(s): UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL, UKM, UKN
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: NATO
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Opportunity closing date 31.1.2023.
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: TKR-2023112-EX-1530614