WAN Services

Description

The purpose of this Contract Notice is to inform the market of the opportunity for the provision of wide area network (WAN) services. The WAN services will deliver secure connectivity for authorised devices at MoJ’s locations and those of its service recipients (over 1000 sites). The Contract for WAN services will be entered into with MoJ. However, the services will be provided for the benefit not only of MoJ but also a range of service recipients (including a range of MoJ executive agencies, arms’ length bodies, government companies and other entities to whom MoJ provides services). The Contract will contain a list of the initial service recipients who are to benefit from the provision of WAN Services, as well as a list of Potential Service Recipients who may wish to be added to the list of Service Recipients during the term of the Contract. The Procurement will be listed under "PQQ_341 – Evolve WAN Services" in the MoJ's eSourcing Portal. The estimated total value range of the Contract is between £100 million and £200 million. The actual value of the Contract will depend on a number of influencing factors including: a) the prices tendered by the successful Bidder; b) whether any extension options are applied; c) the extent to which projects are commissioned; d) the volume of service requests; and e) whether any of the optional services are taken up by MoJ during the term of the Contract. Lot 1: The purpose of this Contract Notice is to inform the market of the opportunity for the provision of WAN Services to the MoJ. The scope of the WAN services includes: •Service Transition – Transition of services while maintaining service continuity; •WAN Connectivity – Secure connectivity to corporate services; •Gateway Services – Secure access to other network domains, cross-government services, and the Internet; and •Core Network Services – Services required for the delivery of the end-to-end network services. Service Transition includes: •Responsibility for service transition to ensure service continuity through to transition to the new services as outlined in the WAN Descriptive Document; •Mobilisation and planning for transition; and •Design and delivery of the new WAN services. WAN Connectivity includes: •Provision of field services; •Provision of Internet circuits and enterprise grade broadband; •Supply and / or maintenance of NTE; •Optimised cloud access, supporting SaaS peering at edge co-location; and •Provision of carrier Internet services, supporting resilient access to SaaS and IaaS services. Gateway Services includes: •Take-over, management and maintenance of: o services that provide connectivity and encrypt LAN traffic between data centres; o Internet access provision at the MoJ data centres; o data centre load balancers; o the remote access solution utilised by the Authority to access the ViSOR application hosted by the Police; and o a secure, resilient network-to-network interconnect gateway. Core Network Services includes: •Provision of a secure and authenticated master time reference service; •Take-over, maintenance and management of the existing networks non-live environment; •Enforcing strong authentication and provision of a PAM service; •Integration with MoJ’s IPAM and DHCP services and interfacing with the MoJ’s DNS. In addition, there are Service Management, Social Value and Security obligations which the Supplier must comply with in the delivery of the WAN Services. Optional Services have been included within the Services Description Schedule. While these Optional Services are not within the initial scope of the WAN Services at the start of the Contract, the MoJ may require the Supplier to provide any or all of the Optional Services at any time during the term of the Contract by giving notice to the Supplier. The key Optional Services include: •Provision of public sector networks (PSN) access services to allow the MoJ to connect to OGDs over the PSN; •Mobile broadband services; •Direct cloud access services; •Management and maintenance of an existing end user remote access service; •Provision of an IPAM service; •Take-over maintenance and management of Forcepoint proxy servers; and •Provision of SASE services including secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, data loss prevention, zero trust network access / VPN, Internet of things, firewall as a service including RAS client termination, encryption/decryption and SD-WAN services. The MoJ is using the competitive dialogue procedure, pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), Regulation 30. The aim of the competitive dialogue is to enable the MoJ to identify the solution or solutions which are capable of meeting its needs. This is a multi-stage process consisting of: • a selection questionnaire (SQ) stage; • an invitation to submit outline solutions (ISOS) stage (The ISOS will be issued with the invitation to participate in dialogue (ITPD)); • an invitation to submit detailed solutions (ISDS) stage; and • an invitation to submit final tenders (ISFT) stage. This contract notice has been published in conjunction with the commencement of the SQ stage. Interested suppliers are encouraged to read the ‘WAN Descriptive Document’ which provides more information about the scope of the WAN Services and the procurement process which the MoJ intends to follow. Additional information: To respond to this opportunity suppliers must be registered on the eSourcing portal, and have signed confidentiality agreements to access the procurement documents under PQQ_341 - Evolve WAN Services. To register please go to https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html To request a confidentiality agreement e-mail evolve.portfolio@justice.gov.uk stating the PQQ Ref