Tender Summary

Chesham Grammar School - ICT Managed Service

Buying Organisation

Chesham Grammar School

Contract Value

£1,100,000

Tender Description

Chesham Grammar School (CGS) is part of a single site academy trust - Red Kite Schools Trust.
CGS is a co-educational grammar school in Buckinghamshire. There is a county-wide selection to secondary school at 11+ and there are 13 grammar schools within the county, five of which are co-educational.
Our intake is drawn from a very wide geographical area. The majority of students come from the Chiltern and South Bucks area of Buckinghamshire but we also have students who travel from Hertfordshire.
At CGS, we aspire to provide an exceptional educational experience in a world class school. We aim to inspire, challenge and guide all our students so that they develop confidence, character and creativity with the skills to become the innovators and leaders of the future.
Almost all of our students progress to their first choice university including Oxford and Cambridge. Our students will be the leaders of tomorrow and our aim is to ensure that they are well equipped for 21st century life. We want them to be confident, articulate and optimistic as well as respectful, tolerant and compassionate. Above all, we want them to be happy.
The school has just over 1216 children on roll, with 371 in the 6th form.
The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include all equipment and service regarding ICT, including but not be limited to;
strategic advice and direction to the School regarding ICT
a core term time service - 39 weeks
an additional 4 discretionary weeks throughout the year
service desk
local staffing that bidders deem necessary to deliver the SLA
responsibility for design, specification, installation and management of all ICT infrastructure
supply of goods and services based on an agreed Best Value (BV) approach
management of all ICT against an agreed SLA
management of 3rd parties
relevant monitoring, management, patching and reporting
training - technical and curriculum as necessary
expectation that the provider will drive innovation
risk registers and inventory management
collective partnership targets regarding support for e.g. support for ICT in the community
Bidders should note the following;
There is an expectation that TUPE will apply from the existing supplier.

Tender categories (products & services required)

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
Education and training services (CPV 80000000)

Region

South East (UKJ)

Buyer Information