Published date: 2 December 2019

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


Closing: 31 October 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£995,815

Procurement reference

DDaT19266

Published date

2 December 2019

Closing date

31 October 2019

Contract start date

1 November 2019

Contract end date

31 October 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

UK Shared Business Services Ltd acting on behalf of the contracting authority United Kingdom Research and Innovation have put in place a contract for cloud hosting and support services for the following UKRI platforms:

1)_Connect;
2) Grants;
3) KTP.

As part of the ongoing hosting and maintenance service provision, a series of service enhancements and upgrades have been agreed, which will be delivered over the term of the forthcoming contract. These upgrades and enhancements are:

1) Implementation of new load balancer on Connect and Grants;
2) Implementation of new monitoring and network control systems;
3) Upgrade of all core firewall firmware to the latest versions (currently on latest branch);
4) Switch to new virtualisation and storage platform;
5) Deployment of new DNS infrastructure to remove reliable on static host files;
6) Upgrade of all sub-systems to Debian 9 or 10;
7) Upgrade of Apache Solr and MySQL to latest versions;
8) Rewrite of all firewall rules to improve security and reduce load on new firewall appliances;
9) Implementation of automatic penetration testing;
10) Rebuild of the Atlassian DevTools stack within AWS - latest version (currently on latest in branch) and improved scaling/resilience;
11) Liferay (6.2) Upgrade completion;
12) OpenAM Upgrade completion.

This contract has been awarded in alignment with the Crown Commercial Services RM1557.11 G Cloud 11 framework

Award information

Awarded date

31 October 2019

Contract start date

1 November 2019

Contract end date

31 October 2020

Total value of contract

£995,815

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES

Address

30 Berners Street
LONDON
W1T 3LR
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 02299747

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ben Oborne

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793 867005

Email

DDaTProcurement@uksbs.co.uk

Website

www.uksbs.co.uk