The Grimsby Institute Group (The Group) is one of the East Coast"s largest providers of Further and Higher education. The Group comprises of the Grimsby Institute, University Centre Grimsby (UCG), and Yorkshire Coast College in Scarborough and Lincolnshire Regional College in Skegness along with several satellite sights.

The Group invites all suitably equipped companies to tender for the installation of a Group Wide Telephony System as per the details below.

The Grimsby Institute Group (the Group) has decided to replace its telephony solutions to support a new set of business and functional requirements that have emerged after a succession of mergers.

The Group consists of many sites, each with an existing and varied telephony infrastructure.

The Group engaged an independent telecommunications consultant to undertake an options appraisal for the development of its telephony infrastructure. From this options appraisal it has been decided that the preferred approach will be to strategically migrate all users to a new IPT infrastructure.

Grimsby Campus Background

The telephony infrastructure at the Grimsby sites is split between Aastra MD110 and Advoco Swift telephone systems.

The Aastra system is operating on software revision BC 13. This configuration is also known as MX-One Telephony Server Switch.

The MD110 is a digital telephone system that utilises time division multiplexing (TDM) technology to switch calls between extensions and exchange lines.

The MD110 utilises Consono LIMS for the stacking of system hardware.

The extension number range on the MD110 is 3 digits. e.g. 101