Published date: 15 January 2016

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: 17 February 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer network services - 72700000

Location of contract

WF2 0XH

Value of contract

£1,500,000 to £2,500,000

Procurement reference

20160115120004-36335

Published date

15 January 2016

Closing date

17 February 2016

Contract start date

15 June 2016

Contract end date

14 June 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

West Yorkshire Police wish to update and upgrade the core Network
Infrastructure. This tender is to identify potential suppliers who could deliver the
required solution in upgrading the infrastructure to meet the increasing:
Capacity, Reliability and Resilience that is essential to support current and future
requirements.

There are 2 main Data Centres at Bradford and Wakefield with a 3rd smaller
centre in another area of Wakefield. The Data Centres are inter-connected by 2
(diversely routed) 10Gbs fibre circuits, which terminate directly on each of the 4
core nodes. Both Data Centres run in an active/active or active/standby
scenario on numerous critical IT systems. Servers are load balanced by a
mixture of Kemp's and Cisco ACE load balancers. Both Data Centres act as
a 'Virtual Data Centre' by means of stretching VLANs between the 2 sites.

WYP deployed an EMC Isilon storage solution and is in the process of rolling out
an 'in force' Elastic Cloud Storage solution (ECS) over 4 sites (3xData Centres
and 2xDivisions). Isilon replication takes place across the forces Local Area
Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) network between Bradford - Wakefield
(both ways) and Bradford (both ways). ECS is seen to operate in a similar way.
A critical area that is heavily dependent on the availability and reliability of WYPs
main LAN/WAN infrastructure is the force Command and Control system and the
Integrated Communications and Control System. These support the Customer
Contact Centre which is responsible for handling all 999 and Non-emergency
calls and the five District Control rooms that handle Emergency Radio dispatch
and local call handling. Any disruption to these has a major impact in both
service delivery and Officer / Public safety. In addition to above, there are
multiple systems that require 24x7 access to ensure both Officer and Public
safety, delivering Policing effectiveness utilising multiple systems such as: ANPR,
Crime recording, Forensics and Custody

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About the buyer

Contact name

Lynne Allen

Address

West Yorkshire Police
Ploughland House
Wakefield
WF2 0XH
ENG

Telephone

+44 1924294914

Email

lynne.allen@southyorks.pnn.police.uk