ICT Managed Service Provider - Ferguslie Park Housing Association

Location

Ferguslie Park, Paisley, PA3 1NT

Description

FPHA are seeking to appoint a Managed Service Provider for their ICT Provision on a contract upto a maximum of 5 years.

Total Quantity or Scope

Ferguslie Park Housing Association (FPHA) is an independent community-based housing association with over 800 properties and we are governed by a volunteer management committee, many of whom are our customers. We are a registered social landlord and a society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. We have been a registered Scottish Charity since 2003 and do not distribute our surpluses, but rather, we reinvest these for the benefit of our current and future customers. We have one wholly-owned subsidiary, the New Tannahill Centre Ltd. It is also a registered Scottish Charity and is run by a committee of volunteers. Together we form The Ferguslie Group. FPHA are undertaking a procurement to appoint a suiably competent, experienced and knowledgeable ICT Managed Service Provider for upto a maximum of 5 years from appointment. The ICT environment is critical to the delivery of frontline social housing services. The scope of the contract includes the 24/7/365 support of the Group’s ICT provision and will also include planned hardware and software updates over the period of the appointment. From an ICT viewpoint, FPHA, is a “single site” operation from its head office in the Tannahill Centre, 76 Blackstoun Road, Paisley, PA3 1NT where the secure server room is located. Primarily FPHA is single-site operation with remote and mobile working capability. The MSP is expected to deliver the following key services - Strategic architecture - Onboarding of all services in-scope of the solution - First-, second- and third-line service desk - Hosting, including support for the servers and associated storage - Security infrastructure including firewall management - Security Operations Centre which is staffed 24x7 and can readily respond to and independently action any alerts particularly outside of FPHA’s normal business hours - Resilient connectivity between FPHA’s Head Office and the hosting service - Resilient Internet connectivity - Telephone system - Local Wired and Wireless Area Networks - End-user support, with on-site visits if and as required - Building of new end-user devices and maintenance of these builds - Patching - Backup including Private/Public cloud hosted services Office 365 services including Email, OneDrive and SharePoint - Monthly service reports and meetings The final scope and delivery model will be refined during mobilisation in agreement with the Contractor

Renewal Options

The contract will be appointed on an initial 36 month basis with the buyer retaining the option to extend the appointment beyond this period for a further 24 months.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Award on basis of price.

Other Information

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=826460. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-pr... A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: The Contractor will be encouraged to support community benefit outcomes proportionate to the value of the contract, for example through knowledge sharing, digital skills support, or engagement with local community organisations (SC Ref:826460) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=826460