High-Bandwidth Telecommunications Infrastructure in the East of England Region

The immediate aim of the procurement is to continue to serve the needs of the organisations currently served by the Regional Partners’ (JANET(UK) and E2BN) respective networks, and upon the expiry of their respective existing contracts.  Lists of these organisations may be found in the Appendix to the PQQ.

The contract envisaged is for bandwidth transmission services to form a regional backbone with capacity initially in the range 1Gbps to 10Gbps, suitably configured by the supplier to build a regional network and connect it to the JANET backbone at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge and at the Anglia Ruskin University campus in Chelmsford.  During the lifetime of the contract it is possible that higher bandwidth capacities will be required.

Further information can be found in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) which is available electronically as a word file and an Adobe PDF file.

Please note that the appendix to the PQQ which lists the organisations currently receiving connections from either the E2BN Core network or from JANET via Eastnet is missing some sites, we have therefore issued an updated list of connected sites as a separate document, available here.

Suppliers should note that before submitting a response to the PQQ they must register their intent to do this with JANET(UK).

Each potential supplier must register on the JANET(UK) e-tendering opportunities portal at https://tenders.ja.net. Each potential supplier must register as a system user if they are a first time user of the JANET(UK) portal, which is a one-off activity. Once accepted by JANET(UK), each supplier will receive a username and password that should be used for all future accesses to the system. The only time that JANET(UK) will reject a supplier is if there is an attempt to have a duplicate registration for a supplier. Also, please note that this first time registration is not a registration for a particular contract, it is only the registration of the user on the JANET(UK) portal. When username and password are received, then a supplier must log in and then register their interest in a specific contract. It is recommended that a generic mailbox (such as sales@supplier) is set up, so that information from the system can be sent to more than one representative at the company.

The steps and timetable for this procurement are as follows: