Very High Bandwidth Global Internet Transit Service

To extend the reach of facilities provided to its users, JANET(UK) has established access from JANET to the global Internet. JANET(UK) has implemented this by a threefold approach:

1. peering with commercial Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the UK;

2. establishing interconnectivity to networks operated by similar academic and research organisations in other European countries and around the world via GEANT; and

3. procuring transit through two ISPs to the global Internet. It is one of the suppliers for the third part of the provision which JANET(UK) is seeking to replace through this procurement.

Further information can be found in the Operation Requirements (OR) which is available electronically as a word file and an Adobe PDF file.

Suppliers should note that before submitting a response to the OR 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: