Published date: 15 February 2021
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Computer equipment and supplies - 30200000
Location of contract
South East
Value of contract
£424,418.72
Procurement reference
701367373
Published date
15 February 2021
Closing date
3 February 2021
Closing time
2pm
Contract start date
15 February 2021
Contract end date
31 March 2022
Contract type
Supply 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?
No
Description
BACKGROUND & REQUIREMENT
Army Digital Services (ADS) supports the Army Hosting Environment (AHE) which currently hosts around 90 business applications and services for the Army and wider Defence across three security domains (Official, Official-Sensitive and SECRET). This private cloud delivers network, compute and storage capabilities. To provide a consistent environment and to minimise training/support costs, ADS have standardised on cost effective elements from Cisco (compute/networking) and PureStorage (storage).
The AHE is the only accredited Defence owned Private Cloud hosting capability that is available across both the RLI and SLI networks. It provides scalable hosting capabilities and application services for Army and wider Defence. As the defence hosting strategy has evolved the aim of MODcloud has shifted from a 'build and they will come' methodology to identifying the best extant capabilities and looking to re-use and enhance. The AHE is viewed as an exemplar in this area. ADS now have a cost model to enable TLBs to 'Pay' (cost recovery) for their hosting. However, as the hosting environment shifts to this model the system needs to be able to easily scale up and out and if demand dictates scale to multiple sites.
AHE COMPUTE UPGRADE
ADS currently charges customers for capacity using a cost recovery (non-profit) model. To enable timely delivery of capacity, customers are provided with capacity from non-committed AHE resources. To ensure additional capacity is available along with replacement of end-of-life data diode, procurement is required utilising the cost recovery funding.
Award information
Awarded date
12 February 2021
Contract start date
15 February 2021
Contract end date
31 March 2022
Total value of contract
£424,418.72
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
BOXXE LIMITED
Address
East Moor House,Greenpark Business Centre, Goose Lane, Sutton-On-The-Forest
YORK
North Yorkshire
YO61 1ET
GBReference
Companies House number: 02109168
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
Additional details
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Non-guaranteed Limit of Liability of £791,666.67 ex VAT upon receipt of approved Business Cases.
3-year support package has also been procured.
About the buyer
Address
D Info, IDL 1, Blenheim Bldg, Army HQ
Andover
SP11 8HJ
England
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