Published date: 2 October 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 19 December 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Miscellaneous computer equipment - 30236000

  • Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment - 32000000

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

    • Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services - 72222000

    • Computer-related services - 72500000

    • Computer network services - 72700000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£2,000,000 to £4,000,000

Procurement reference

SF / 2611 award

Published date

2 October 2018

Closing date

19 December 2016

Contract start date

1 July 2017

Contract end date

30 June 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Competitive dialogue (above threshold)

Tenders are invited from pre-qualified suppliers after discussion of requirements and potential solutions.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of Leeds (UoL) is implementing a new Data Centre Strategy (DCS). As part of this it intends to procure and implement a new, modern, converged compute and storage infrastructure that will be hosted across two new fully resilient data centres.

A new strategic approach is needed to provide efficient, effective, flexible, transparent, monitored and consumable compute and storage infrastructure services capable of hosting all UoL IT services. A modern, fit-for-purpose infrastructure platform is required to support University objectives in a way that is sustainable for the future, supports University growth and delivers significant savings.

The current space and infrastructure that support IT at the University is fragmented across numerous locations that contain varying amounts of infrastructure, which we aim to replace with a consolidated, operationally-efficient converged platform that will demand considerably less power, and space at the same time as delivering significant operational and cost benefits.

In general, all applications and services - for teaching, research and corporate - will migrate into a new unified service delivery model. The exceptions being some research servers attached to instrumentation.
The new "hybrid cloud" infrastructure platform and service delivery model will be delivered via two main data centers. Approximately 500 servers and 2.4 PB of storage will be replaced with the main migration complete in 18-24 months from date of contract award. Due to the volumes of data involved, we allow an extra 12 months to complete the migration of research data.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Supply and Installation of a Hybrid Cloud Solution

  • Opportunity
  • Published 21 November 2016

Additional text

Details can be found @
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofleeds/aspx/Home

Award information

Awarded date

9 January 2018

Contract start date

10 February 2018

Contract end date

9 February 2021

Total value of contract

£4,000,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ANS Group Ltd

Address

Synergy House
Manchester Science Park
Manchester
M15 6SY

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

David McLaren or Colin Challinor

Address

Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Email

centralpurchasing@adm.leeds.ac.uk