Replacement VPN and Secure web gateway product
Details
- Buyer
- Sussex Police
- Topic
- Network interfaces
- Published
- 21 October 2024
- Submission
- 1 November 2024
Tender description
We would like to notify you of an upcoming requirement, and by doing so we are keen to understand where the market stands in terms of our requirement below. This Request for Information (RFI) seeks information relating to purchasing a new replace VPN and Secure web gateway product. While looking at our upcoming requirement to replace legacy components we wish to look at new technologies and how we transition our services to future industry trends. These trends include ZTNA as a replacement for our client-based VPN’s and on-premises Secure web gateway, SSE and SASE solutions. We also would like to explore how our WAN could evolve in the upcoming few years around an integrated approach with a strategic vendor providing connectivity to hybrid works and branch sites with a view around how Zero Trust could also be applied. This RFI has been submitted under both the following frameworks: • Health Trust Europe – ICT Solution 3 • NHS SBS – Digital Workplace Solutions For those suppliers who are registered under both frameworks, you will only need to submit one response. Please indicate which framework you are submitting your response under. This should be the framework which you feel will offer the most value to the Police based on the requirements listed in this RFI.
Timeline
- Completed: Tender published21 October 2024Current notice
- Completed: Submission date1 November 2024
About the buyer
Sussex Police buys as a blue light force through a joint procurement service shared with Surrey Police. This Joint Procurement Service advises both forces and their Police and Crime Commissioners on every tender. Procurement follows the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025. Suppliers register free on the In-Tend portal, where day-to-day opportunities are published. Larger opportunities also appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. National policing contracts increasingly route through BlueLight Commercial, formed in 2024 from the Police Digital Service's frameworks. Bidders are asked to submit a social value plan using BlueLight Commercial's NETpositive tool.
The top 10 blue light buyers spent a collective £2.2bn between FY2021 and FY2025.
Over the past 5 years, most of Sussex Police's contract awards have been in office and computing equipment and software and information systems.
Relevant CPV codes
- 30237110 · Network interfaces
- 32400000 · Networks
- 32412120 · Intranet network
- 48821000 · Network servers
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@sussex-police.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@sussex-police.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@sussex-police.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@sussex-police.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@sussex-police.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@sussex-police.gov |
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