# WAN & LAN Maintenance Services

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire Authority](/buyers/buckinghamshire-milton-keynes-fire-authority/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Updata Infrastructure \(UK\) Ltd
- Award value: £118,000
- Tender value: £118,000
- Award date: 25 September 2021
- Published: 3 November 2021
- Contract start: 25 September 2021
- Contract end: 24 September 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 7c85d0dd-ed13-4847-b4d3-35cfac2ddd5f-482347
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-e28de51f-06e8-4bd3-bb07-ad409ce864e0

## Description

WAN and LAN are business critical systems, without it the Service would not be able to operate\. Due to unforeseen delays in the transition to a new service provider, a short term 12 month contract extension has been awarded to the existing service provider to maintain these business critical systems\. The contract extensions are permissible under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Regulation 32\(2\)\(c\) if the following criteria are met: "32\(2\) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:- \[\.\.\.\] \(c\) insofar as is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7c85d0dd-ed13-4847-b4d3-35cfac2ddd5f-482347)