Number: 790631
Country: United Kingdom
Source: TED
National Software Products and Associated Services Framework.
Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3 500 km2. It has an annual expenditure of circa 1 000 000 000 GBP on goods and services and a population of 1 500 000. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.
Commercial Services is one of the largest trading organisations of its kind in Europe with a turnover in excess of 600 000 000 GBP and employing over 700 people from its base in Kent. Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations. These include local government, education establishments, the care sector and the emergency services.
KCS Professional Services, is a trading unit of Commercial Services and provides a purchasing, warehousing and distribution service to a wide ranging customer base within local government and associated public bodies in Kent, neighbouring counties and across the UK.
The Central Buying Consortium (CBC) is a group of County, Borough and City Councils. The purpose of which is to improve the effectiveness, by co-ordination, of local authority purchasing with the object of effecting savings in public expenditure for the benefit of its members. CBC procures approximately 750 000 000 GBP goods and services per annum.
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, Kent County Council via KCS Professional Services has created a National Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the supply and delivery of Software Products and Associated Services.
The procurement process adopted by the Contracting Authority is based upon the ‘Open" Procedure, as detailed in the ‘Public Contract Regulations 2015".
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Microsoft
Security
Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS)
All public bodies will have access to this Agreement but may only do so with the agreement of the Contracting Authority. Those organisations who may wish to access this Agreement will be members, affiliates and associates of the CBC Group, the Police Service, the Fire Service, the NHS and NHS Trusts, third sector organisations, academic centres (including Academies), publicly funded organisations and publicly owned private companies, operating within the geographic boundaries of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Northern Ireland.
The Agreement will also be open for use by all other local authorities and public sector bodies. Full details of the classification of potential Contracting Bodies and End User"s geographical areas and organisation classifications are detailed as follows:
Regions in England: Main Regions: East Midlands; West Midlands; East of England; South East; South West; North West; North East; Yorkshire and Humber; London or to individual administering Councils. See link:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm
Northern Ireland: Administered across 26 Districts of Northern Ireland. See link:
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/local-councils-in-northern-ireland
Scotland: Administered across 32 Council areas. See link:
http://www.cosla.gov.uk/scottish-local-government
Wales: Administered across 22 Council areas. See link:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/localgovernment/?skip=1&lang=en
Classification of End User Organisations
Local Authority Councils: County, Unitary, District, Borough, and Metropolitan Councils. (Parish and Community Councils are also permissible users). See link:
Educational Establishments: Nursery School, Primary School, Middle or High School, Secondary School, Academy, Special School, Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), Further Education College, University. See links:
http://www.schoolswebdirectory.co.uk/index.php
http://www.ukschoolsdirectory.net/
www.education.gov.uk/edubase
www.hefce.ac.uk
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/aboutus/members/Pages/default.aspx
Police, Fire and Rescue and Maritime and Coastguard Agency Emergency Services:
See links:
http://www.police.uk/forces.htm
http://www.fireservice.co.uk/
http://www.nifrs.org/
http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home.htm
NHS Bodies, the HSC (Northern Ireland) and Ambulance Services:
http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx
http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=trusts
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/index.aspx
http://www.scottishambulance.com/AboutUs/HowWeOrganised.aspx
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure
Central Government Departments and their Agencies:
See link:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/A-ZOfCentralGovernment/index.htm
Registered Charities:
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/About_us/Regulation/Registering_charities_index.aspx
http://www.oscr.org.uk/
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/contacts/contacts-az.htm/housing-associations-contact
Registered Social Landlords: Government-funded, not-for-profit organisations that provide affordable housing. They include housing associations, trusts and cooperatives. See link:
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=7175736
http://www.nhfdirectory.co.uk
Northern Ireland: Administered across 11 Council areas. See link:
Suppliers are advised that the Contracting Authority, its affiliates and/or authorised users, reserve the right to supply the tendered products, services, and commodities to companies that have a majority public sector ownership by any of the public sector bodies referred to above during the Agreement period as stated in this document, for the purpose of selling to other public, private and third sector organisations.
