Published date: 30 April 2015

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 5 June 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data storage services - 72317000

  • Data management services - 72322000

Location of contract

LS6 3QS

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

RM405

Published date

30 April 2015

Closing date

5 June 2015

Contract start date

1 August 2015

Contract end date

30 July 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University, located across the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire is one of the UK's leading universities providing quality teaching, outstanding research as well as working with the regional and local community, businesses and industry. The University employs over 2,500 staff with over 28,000 post-graduate and under-graduate students.

The University IT Service (ITS) provides the IT facilities to support teaching, research and administrative services used by both staff and students across the University. The University has two data centres; one on the City campus and one on the Headingley campus. The Headingley Data Centre suffers from issues with environment, power and structural integrity. A case study was carried out to investigate potential options and the University now wishes to procure managed IT hosting facilities referred to hereinafter as the "New Hosting Facility" to be used to host the Headingley facility.

To meet its disaster recovery and business continuity objectives, the New Hosting Facility must be located a minimum of 1000 metres away from the Leeds City Campus, measured from the central campus complex at LS1 3ES. The University will also require the New Hosting Facility to be within a certain travelling distance as University staff will need to attend the facility for operational reasons. This does not exclude companies from tendering, but the provision of the service must meet these physical requirements.

The University intends to procure physically diversely routed, network communication links between its Leeds City Campus and its Headingley Campus and the New Hosting Facility, using separate communications vendors.

The University also wishes to procure services to move its equipment from the Headingley Data Centre to the New Hosting Facility as required.

More information

Links

Additional text

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/leedsbeckettuniversity/aspx/

About the buyer

Contact name

Rob Moore

Address

Leeds Beckett University
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS6 3QS

Telephone

0113 812 5475

Email

r.m.moore@leedsbeckett.ac.uk