Supply & Support of Routing & Switching Equipment

Procurement of routing and switching equipment plus associated support services is a core part of JANET(UK)’s business.  JANET(UK) wishes to establish a multi-supplier framework agreement to enable JANET(UK) and other JANET connected organisations to purchase routing and switching equipment plus any required support services.

The NEUPC has an existing national framework for Networking Equipment and Consultancy for Convergent Solutions. The framework runs until 31st July 2011 with the option of possible extensions until 31st July 2013. JANET(UK) and the NEUPC have been working together to develop a PQQ with a view to having a joint agreement from 1st August 2012 based on the outcome of this procurement.

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

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: