Competition with a shortlist
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Key facts
- Buyer
- Health and Safety Executive · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- British Telecommunications plc
- Value
- £847,864
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Telecoms equipment · Networks (CPV 32400000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Feb 2026
- Published14 May 2026Published 90 days after the contract date
Description
HSE is looking to adopt an "Internet as a Network" (IaaN) based architecture for all services (including data centre to cloud links) and offices incorporating NCSC-advised zero trust principles. This entails the removal of the existing hub-spoke infrastructure from all offices and the installation of internet connections of various sizes. HSE colleagues already use the internet as their primary network to access HSE services whilst working from home and from Government hub locations and therefore the assumption is they would similarly use the internet to access all services from HSE offices. The majority of HSE's key services (Telephony, Video Conferencing, Printing , Office 365 etc.) have migrated to become cloud-based services, hence the hub-spoke architecture is no longer considered suitable. There are currently a small number of key business applications that reside on-premise, but these will eventually migrate to the Cloud, as HSE increasingly moves to internet / cloud-based serv…
About the supplier
British Telecommunications plc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01800000).