Northern Ambition Academies Trust ICT Managed Service

The Northern Ambition Academies Trust (NAAT) is a Trust of 4 Academies encompassing c.2,093 pupils in and around Castleford.

The current schools are:

Airedale Academy

Airedale Infants Academy

Airedale Juniors Academy

Oyster Park Primary Academy

The Northern Ambition Academies Trust (NAAT) was established in 2014.

Northern Ambition Academies Trust (NAAT) was established in 2014. In tandem with the national strategy the Trust is intending to grow. The aspiration of the Trust is to ensure its' growth plans align with the ambition set out in the recent Government White Paper, with the Trust aiming to serve a minimum of 7500 pupils or to run at least 10 schools by 2030. The current aim would be for these schools to be in broadly the same geographical area. Bidders should make the assumption that this growth could be in the basis of an average of one school per annum or a small group of schools.

This procurement encompasses the items noted below. In essence, this procurement is all about identifying a single supplier to provide a fully outsourced managed service. At the sole discretion of the Trust any future schools that the Trust may incorporate into the Trust will also be added to the ICT contract. Any additional schools will co-terminate to the end same end date of the initial contract.

Further details regarding timescales are noted below but in summary this is advertised as a 60 month contract with a maximum 5 year managed service with start and end dates as follows:

The new Managed service provider will also deliver a range of technology and change management projects to go ahead as soon as possible. The main focus of these projects is to address technology issues in schools and 'join up' the schools into a single network provision.

A full technical analysis of each school will be provided to shortlisted bidders at the ITT Stage but to provide an idea of the size of the device estate the following table provides a summary.

The companies identified from these shortlisting questions to receive the ITT for the Managed service will then receive a detailed set of requirements. For the purposes of this shortlisting stage bidders should assume that the ITT will include, but not be limited to;

Bidders should note the following;