Published date: 23 April 2018

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 14 May 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

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

Location of contract

Any region

Procurement reference

SAN Soft Market Test

Published date

23 April 2018

Closing date

14 May 2018

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) would like to invite suppliers to participate in a Soft Market Test exercise. We are looking to formulate an overall strategy for managing unstructured data and are looking to ascertain whether cloud hosting of data can support our requirements.

This process is the beginning of our market engagement exercise designed to help us understand if a cloud based solution can meet the fast evolving needs of our service. This process will better inform any future procurement exercise, and help interested organisations understand our requirements.

The University currently operates an on-premise SAN. This service has reached capacity and we are considering the approach we will take to replace this. We are exploring different approaches to managing unstructured data and would like to understand the capabilities and costs associated with cloud or partial cloud solutions for SAN storage.

Please be aware that at this stage we are not looking to purchase; as such we will not be formally assessing proposals, and nothing given or provided at this stage will be evaluated as part of any future procurement process

Further information is provided in the document download. If you feel your organisation is able to contribute to this exercise, please complete the relevant questions provided in the downloadable document and return to sharanjit.rathbone@ntu.ac.uk by 17.00 Monday 14th May 2018

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About the buyer

Contact name

sharanjit rathbone

Address

50 Shakespeare Street
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 4FQ
England

Email

sharanjit.rathbone@ntu.ac.uk