High-Bandwidth Telecommunications Infrastructure in the South West of England

JANET(UK) is running a procurement for the replacement of the South West England Regional Network (SWERN), a regional telecommunications network in the South West of England. The SWERN network currently delivers JANET services to the higher and further education and research community in the region.

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: