How to win: Atlas Wide Area Network Services

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The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO – the Authority), together with the British Council (BC), referred to jointly as the Partners, wish to gain feedback and insight from the market on a potential procurement for global wide area networking and related services. The Partners currently operate a wide area network spanning over 400 locations in around 160 countries and territories. This network is based on MPLS/VSAT, together with a range of network integration services under the ECHO2 contract. This core is supplemented by various Partner-provided last-mile technologies around the world. The majority of network traffic is internet-based rather than carried over the SD-WAN core. The network(s) support services including, but not limited to, office applications, video and voice. The Partners seek to procure services that will modernise and manage these global networking capabilities to meet the organisations’ future needs. To this end, the FCDO is conducting this market engagement exercise in order to: • develop the Authority’s requirements and approach to the procurement; • identify suppliers that may be able to supply the goods, services or works required; and • iden

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