Published date: 4 December 2018

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


Closing: 12 November 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information systems and servers - 48800000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£750,000

Procurement reference

DVNCC001-DN377881-22052710

Published date

4 December 2018

Closing date

12 November 2018

Contract start date

30 November 2018

Contract end date

1 December 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Direct award

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This procurement is for a strategic refresh of the Corporate Storage and Virtualisation Compute Infrastructure in order to maintain a reliable service, provide good performance, and allow for capacity growth.

After at least 6 years of operation, and longer for some components, the cost of maintenance, along with concerns over reduced reliability, capacity, and general age of the technology, the refreshing of this infrastructure is recommended.

The ICT Storage and Virtualisation Compute are critical areas of the ICT core infrastructure;

• The primary production storage array hosts the vast majority of Devon's electronic data
• The array is now six years old and has been planned for lifecycle refresh this year.
• A significant failure would affect many critical services including;
Finest, HRMS, HP Records Manager, Internet & Transactional Services, M Drives & P Drives, Connectivity/Authentication to services such as Carefirst, Office365, Exchange Online, Homeworking.
• The Virtualisation Compute hosts virtual servers that underpin many of the applications mentioned above, along with the core services required to support the Corporate Desktop.
• A significant proportion of this estate is old and in need of refresh
• The underpinning technology has become complex to maintain and is approaching end of sales life
• The technology is also becoming a limiting factor in keeping the Virtualisation technology up to date.

More information

Additional text

Direct Award against North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) NHS IT Enterprise Solutions - Lot 1 Enterprise Hardware

Award information

Awarded date

29 November 2018

Contract start date

30 November 2018

Contract end date

1 December 2023

Total value of contract

£750,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

MTI Technology Ltd

Address

Saltire Court, 20 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh. EH1 2EG

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Gavin Punchard

Address

County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter
EX2 4QD
England

Telephone

+44 1392383000

Email

gavin.punchard@devon.gov.uk

Website

http://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk