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Supply and Support of Routing & Switching Equipment

JANET(UK) wishes to establish a number of call off contracts to cover the supply and support of routing and switching equipment for JANET and regional networks as well as any other organisations that receive JANET service.

The Prequalification questionnaire (PQQ) is available electronically as a Word file and an Adobe PDF file.

Clarifications

As matters for clarification arise they will be answered by JANET(UK) and made available on the JANET(UK) e-tendering opportunities portal.  Suppliers that have registered their intent to submit a proposal will be notified each time this is updated.

Registration

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 new 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:

Activity

Date

Notice of procurement in the EU Journal

19th October 2007

Close of registration to take part in the procurement process

19th November 2007

Final date for Clarifications

19th November 2007

Prequalification questionnaire returns by:

12:00 noon,
26th November 2007

Complete review of responses and shortlist suppliers to enter the procurement process

7th December 2007

Produce and issue the Operational Requirement and draft contract

9th January 2008

Return of Operational Requirement responses

18th February 2008

Selection of preferred suppliers

7th March 2008

Contracts placed with preferred suppliers

25th April 2008