Published date: 20 March 2021

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


Closing: 12 March 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer storage units - 30233100

Location of contract

OX10 8BB

Value of contract

£66,996

Procurement reference

IT174-21

Published date

20 March 2021

Closing date

12 March 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

26 March 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

UKCEH runs on-premise data centres at each of the four sites, with services being virtualized on a
Vmware Vsphere 6.7/7.0 platform.

The existing IBM V3700 storage area network (SAN) that holds the virtual machines (VMs) at each site is now approaching end of life and needs to be replaced.

These VMs provide the majority of general purpose IT services to the site (such as MS AD, SCCM, print) as well as a variety of web services both internally and externally to external partners/WWW.

The VSphere platform is hosted on Dell Poweredge servers, themselves recently replaced, so a
hyperconverged host/storage solution is not an option at this time.

The existing VM SANs at each site are independent of each other, although there is a possibility that
during the lifespan of the new SAN they could be linked, for example to provide VM DR between sites.

Storage services in UKCEH are run over 2 redundant fibre channel fabrics (8/16gbps).

Existing FC switches are a mixture of 8gbps IBM SAN24B-4 (Brocade 300) and 16gbps Lenovo B6505 (Brocade 6505).

Note: this VM SAN is complementary to a much larger SAN (out of the scope of this project) that
provides bulk file services to the sites (including acting as a Veeam backup repository for VMs, itself then backed up to tape.)

Award information

Awarded date

19 March 2021

Contract start date

26 March 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Total value of contract

£66,996

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

DELL CORPORATION LIMITED

Address

1 The Western Centre Western Road
BRACKNELL
Berkshire
RG12 1RW
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 02081369

Value of contract

£66,996

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Additional details

This contract was awarded via Servers, Storage & Solutions National Agreement (SSSNA) ITS4031 SU following a mini-competition

About the buyer

Address

Maclean Building
Benson Lane
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
England

Email

procurement@ceh.ac.uk