Published date: 26 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: 25 February 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services - 72222000

  • Information systems or technology strategic review services - 72222100

  • Information systems or technology planning services - 72222200

    • Information technology services - 72222300

    • Information technology requirements review services - 72223000

    • Software integration consultancy services - 72227000

    • Hardware integration consultancy services - 72228000

    • Data services - 72300000

    • Data network management and support services - 72315000

    • Data storage services - 72317000

    • Computer-related management services - 72510000

    • Network management software services - 72511000

    • Computer support and consultancy services - 72600000

    • Computer network services - 72700000

Location of contract

SG17 5TQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

CBC-0580-T-AE

Published date

26 January 2016

Closing date

25 February 2016

Contract start date

1 April 2016

Contract end date

31 March 2021

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 core objective of this tender is to contract for Data Centre Management:
• The core of data centre infrastructure - servers, storage and data centre software requirements are to be provided by a Cloud Service that will be contracted as agreed by CBC IT Management and the Data Centre Management team.
• The role of the Data Centre Management Team will be to:
o Architect and agree use of the (to be contracted) Cloud based Infrastructure as a Service so as to create a fully functional data centre for CBC use.
o Transition CBC services from their existing co-location sites to the new services.
o On-going operational management of the hosted applications services including optimisation of resource capacity, elasticity in resource allocation to meet demand, fault rectification, utilisation reporting, security and governance.
o The contracted Data Centre Management Team should work along side CBC management and end users in the same capacity as that of an in house service team.

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

About the buyer

Contact name

Alec Edgar

Address

Priory House
Chicksands
Beds
SG17 5TQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

0300 300 6182

Email

alec.edgar@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk

Website

www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk