The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has launched a new Mobile Voice and Data Services procurement framework for the public sector.
It said the agreement replaces lot six of the Network Services 2 framework and covers the full spectrum of mobile usage, with 10 suppliers given places, six of which are SMEs.
CCS highlighted the framework’s capacity to support a ‘SIM swap’ to minimise the effort in migrating from one supplier to another, and the ability to define more complex requirements.
The new agreement will be live for two years with two optional one-year extensions and there is no maximum duration for call-off contracts.
It involves four lots: the mobile voice and data solutions catalogue; mobile voice and data solutions; telecommunications audit and health check; and professional support services.
Quick and secure
Philip Orumwense, commercial director and chief procurement officer for technology at CCS, said: “Mobile voice and data is an integral part of enabling service delivery for the public sector and staff require access to reliable services whether they’re working from home, working remotely at a site or regularly travelling to deliver frontline services. The ability to talk and communicate to colleagues and citizens and access and share data quickly and securely has never been more important.
“This new agreement uses the buying power that CCS has, to deliver cost effective and soundly procured services for potentially hundreds of thousands of users right across the UK, offering an average of 60% savings on core services.”
