Published date: 31 July 2017
This notice was replaced on 3 January 2018
This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:
Awarded contract (published 3 January 2018)
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Contract summary
Industry
Information systems and servers - 48800000
Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services - 72222000
Data services - 72300000
Computer-related services - 72500000
Computer back-up and catalogue conversion services - 72900000
Location of contract
North West
Value of contract
£2,100,000
Procurement reference
MANC001-DN290662-67364783
Published date
31 July 2017
Closing date
31 August 2017
Contract start date
1 November 2017
Contract end date
31 October 2020
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
Manchester City Council's Data Centre Strategy defines the migration from the existing Council-owned single data centre to two new co-location facilities providing a robust and resilient disaster recovery solution to meet tight business RPO and RTO across a range of services and applications.
The Council requires two industry leading co-location data centre facilities in the Manchester area to host a total of twenty racks split across both locations for an initial three year period. In addition, the successful supplier will provide migration services to assist the Council moving out of the existing data centre.
The Council has some in house skills to migrate systems from the existing data centre to the two new data centres. These resources are limited in number and have existing commitments to business as usual service provision. Professional services are therefore required to bolster the Council's migration team - this work will include physical hardware migrations, virtual machine migrations and associated networking, operating system and application configuration changes.
A new network infrastructure will be installed in the two new data centres - the design, supply, implementation and configuration of this network infrastructure is outside of the scope of this tender.
The Council's existing data centre is approximately 6 years old and includes industry standard data centre infrastructure of a good quality standard - UPS, generators, electrical switchgear, air conditioning and rack units. Once migrations to the new data centres are complete the Council wishes to dispose of this equipment in the most economically advantageous manner and decommission the data centre in readiness for handing back the facility to the landlord.
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About the buyer
Contact name
Michael Shields
Address
Room 407
Town Hall
Manchester
M60 2LA
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 1612341009
Website
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