Provision of School Routers and Associated Services and the Management of existing School Routers

Department of Education and Skills

Currently there are approximately 3 600 schools connections in place under this programme, the majority of schools have one broadband connection with a small amount of schools with two connections. The Existing Routers installed in schools are either a Cisco 871 or a Cisco 881 router (specification attached at appendix 9). In addition to the routers in place in schools the Minister also owns a number of spares (approximately 130). The Minister wishes to put in place a draw down facility for the purchase of new CPE routers for schools.
In addition to supply of the new CPE router the provider will be expected to manage the existing estate of routers.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2013-08-22. The procurement was published on 2013-07-01.

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Procurement history
Date Document
2013-07-01 Contract notice
Contract notice (2013-07-01)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Telecommunications equipment and supplies
Quantity or scope:
โ€œ1 500 000โ€
Total value of the procurement: 1 500 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Telecommunications equipment and supplies ๐Ÿ“ฆ

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Awarding authority name: Department of Education and Skills
Postal address: Marlborough Street
Postal code: 1
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
E-mail: mark_mcdonnell@education.gov.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 18892051 ๐Ÿ“ž

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2013-07-01 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2013-08-22 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2013-07-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2013/S 129-221554
OJ-S issue: 129
Additional information

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Source: OJS 2013/S 129-221554 (2013-07-01)