# 17 171 Provision of a High Bandwidth and Low Latency Cloud Access Connection

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Cheshire East Borough Council](/buyers/cheshire-east-borough-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: The Networking People \(NorthWest\) Ltd
- Award value: £312,436
- Tender value: £312,436
- Award date: 5 January 2018
- Published: 19 February 2018
- Contract start: 1 February 2018
- Contract end: 31 January 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: d346fe51-85e2-421b-b122-8837b46dea59-199630
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-31dbdac6-9fac-44be-b3e7-9b0d380f768f

## Description

Cheshire East ICT Services currently manage both Cheshire East Council \(CEC\) and Cheshire West and Chester \(CWaC\) councils LAN and WAN infrastructure across the Cheshire footprint for all corporate and some school sites\. This includes connectivity to the internet\. Currently a 5GB Internet connectivity is provided under a contract with JaNET at the Chester University Riverside Campus site\. As part of the ICT strategy CEC, CWaC and Cheshire East ICT Services have chosen to implement a hybrid approach to cloud services\. This will place a greater reliance on an internet service\. We are looking to commence hosting more services in the Cloud using initially Microsoft Azure to provide resilience for those services/applications that are highlighted at that time that the business requires\. We will be asking for prices and evaluating the quality aspects of the requirements and awarding to the Most Economically Advantageous Tender\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d346fe51-85e2-421b-b122-8837b46dea59-199630)