Awarded contract

Managed Services - Reaching 100% Programme

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): Parity Professionals
Value: £5,000,000
Topic: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published: 16 November 2023
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Government has set out a clear commitment that every home and business across Scotland should be able to access superfast broadband. This commitment resulted in the Reaching 100% programme (R100), which comprises public investment through three regional contracts alongside a voucher scheme. To procure the main R100 contracts, Scotland was split into three geographical Lots – the North, Central and South. The R100 programme team will manage the three contracts and the SBVS – all of which will run for a number of years. The scale of the task will require some flexibility in-life to ensure that there is sufficient capacity within and across the team to deliver the various objectives associated with the different elements of the programme. The structure of the Programme Team is now established and key appointments have been made to fill the Programme and Commercial Director roles, along with a number of other senior positions.

Timeline

Completed: Award date21 December 2020
Completed: Award published16 November 2023
Current notice

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov