Yorkshire Water is seeking partners to operate on a framework for the provision of a wide range of IT infrastructure goods and services worth up to an estimated £67 million in total.
The water company is aiming to modernise and transform its underlying IT infrastructure to support the application delivery pipeline and improve speed to market.
When in place, the framework will provide YWS with the ability to access a full range of IT infrastructure services - from advice and guidance, through design, delivery and operation.
The services will be accessed through competitive in framework mini-tenders which the partners can elect to participate in. The framework will also provide direct sourcing of commodity IT infrastructure goods and services through a catalogue-style arrangement.
Yorkshire Water intends to implement a framework involving a small number of partners, who collectively will provide access to a broad set of goods, services and capabilities in IT infrastructure.
The utility is looking for partners with a strong track record in a number of areas, including:
- enterprise datacentre, hybrid cloud, DevOps and digital transformation
- IT infrastructure modernization and consolidation
- primary network services for data and voice, including routing, switching, mobile and wireless,
- infrastructure security for the digital era
- rapid deployment of wireless resources, pop-up branches, secure BYOD workplace, wireless surveys and spectrum analysis and innovative technologies new to market
- self-healing and self-optimising infrastructure
- analytics technologies to forecast and nullify incidents before they occur
- optimisation and support of legacy IT infrastructure
- capabilities to source and deploy infrastructure quickly, efficiently, and securely
- expert consultants and training capabilities to embed new skills within
- experience implementing and servicing technology in organisations like YWS, with a large field-based workforce, large customer contact centre, extensive plant infrastructure and remote office/branch office locations
Under the framework, YWS will be looking to its partners to advise on strategy and roadmaps, helping change the shape of IT at YWS.
The water company said it is not seeking bids from joint ventures and that it intends to appoint partners who will be wholly responsible and accountable for delivering and managing contracted work, irrespective of whether solutions are sourced direct from OEMs, distributors or other partners.
The framework could run for up to eight years - an initial three year term with further extension options of three years and two years respectively .
Yorkshire Water is looking to appoint up to four participants to the framework agreement.
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