Published date: 3 January 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 31 August 2017

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

£866,952

Procurement reference

MANC001-DN290662-09006631

Published date

3 January 2018

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?

Yes

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.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

TC933 - Provision of Data Centre Facilities and Migration Partner

  • Opportunity
  • Published 31 July 2017

Links

Award information

Awarded date

3 January 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Total value of contract

£866,952

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

UKFast.net Limited

Address

UKFast Campus, Birley Fields, Manchester, M15 5QJ

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Michael Shields

Address

Third Floor
Town Hall Extension
Manchester
M60 2LA
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1612341009

Email

m.shields@manchester.gov.uk

Website

http://www.manchester.gov.uk