These are the suppliers who are participating in the Telephony Purchasing Service. New suppliers will be added to the list as they come through our approval process. Interested suppliers can contact telephony@jisc.ac.uk to find out more about the joining process.
The Telephony Purchasing Service (TPS) had an intitial term that ran from 4 Jan 2016 to 3 January 2018 and has been extended for a further 2 years. This will run to 3 Jan 2020.
Below is a notice received recently recently from aql, requesting that customers update firewalls / ACLs etc. with a new range of IP addresses. Although aql is not part of the Telephony Purchasing Service, some of Jisc's members may be using aql as their SIP provider.
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Below is a notice received recently recently from aql, requesting that customers update firewalls / ACLs etc. with a new range of IP addresses. Although aql is not part of the Telephony Purchasing Service, some of Jisc's members may be using aql as their SIP provider.
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At the time of being accepted on to the Telephony Purchasing Service, each supplier has satisfied the following elements listed in the PreQualification Questionnaire for the Telephony Purchasing Service:
- Company Capability
- Company resources
- Grounds for mandatory and discretionary rejection as set out in Regulation 57(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015
Use this template if you wish to purchase smaller items such as mobile phones etc.
This template can be used when making larger purchases involving e.g. connectivity, or when you've got a more complex set of requirements.
In 2014 the Leeds College of Building phone system was deemed no longer fit for purpose, but the college were unsure on how to go about replacing it or how to articulate their requirements in a tender document. The ICT manager Ian Knight attended an event where he learned about the potential support from Jisc. “When I heard the telephony purchasing service mentioned, I knew that’s what I needed to do: write a tender and get it seen by Jisc for some expertise and advice on whether people are going to know what I want,” he explains.
In west Wales, Pembrokeshire College had been running VoIP on their local area network for a number of years to cater for its 4,500 students and staff on multiple campuses. But by 2013 external call costs using traditional ISDN links were becoming a real concern.
Download the .pdf file above to find out how savings were made.
