Wide area network services

Department of Finance

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Provision of Technical & Architectural Support Services for the "Government Networks" infrastructure. The Department of Finance intends to establish a central drawdown facility for the provision of independent technical and architectural support services for wide-area networking with a service provider. This facility will be used by the Department of Finance for technical and architectural support on the Government Networks infrastructure. The facility will also be available, on a discretionary basis, to all civil service and non-commercial public service bodies for use on their own infrastructures. In this regard, the Department of Finance maintains a list of over five thousand (5 000) non-commercial public sector bodies that includes bodies in central government, the local authority sector, the health sector, the justice sector, the education sector, the defence forces, and non-commercial semi-state agencies. The uptake of services and the timing of same will be at the discretion of each individual public body. No obligation will exist on customers to purchase any quantity of any service or product under this drawdown facility. Customers will also remain free to source technical and architectural support services for wide-area networking in part or in whole outside this facility at their own discretion.

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2008-10-14. The procurement was published on 2008-08-26.

• • Department of Finance

• • Telecommunications network › Internet network
• • Telecommunications network › Intranet network
• • Integrated network › Network routers
• • Local area network › Ethernet network
• • Local area network › Multimedia networks
• • Network equipment › Network cabling
• • Network equipment › Network components
• • Network equipment › Network hubs
• • Network equipment › Network infrastructure
• • Network equipment › Network system
• • Network equipment › Network upgrade
• • Networks › Wide area network
• • Telephone cables and associated equipment › Telephone network
• • Maintenance and repair of data network equipment › Maintenance of data network equipment
• • Maintenance and repair of data network equipment › Repair of data network equipment
• • Data network management and support services › Data network support services
• • Data network management and support services › Data network management services
• • Computer-related management services › Network management software services

• • Éire/Ireland