Published date: 28 February 2023

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


Closing: 30 January 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Servers - 48820000

  • Computer servers - 48822000

Location of contract

BN72FZ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

20230228141019-30091

Published date

28 February 2023

Closing date

30 January 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 January 2023

Contract end date

1 February 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Sussex Police and Surrey Police operate the VMware vSphere hypervisor platform (version 7.0), currently using a mix of HPE C-class blade enclosures and HPE ProLiant Gen9 servers as ESXi nodes. NetApp storage, attached via a mix of Cisco MDS fibre channel switches and NFS, provides the back-end storage, and a Cisco LAN using Nexus 7706 core switches and Nexus 2K fabric extenders as ToR switches. The Nexus 7706 supports 10GbE ports, and the Cisco MDS FC switches supports 32Gbps or lower (32Gbps being preferred for UCS uplinks).

The storage and LAN/SAN switches are relatively new and not in need of replacement. However, the C-class enclosures and Proliants have reached the end of their supported life, and we have a requirement for additional ESXi compute capacity to allow for future projects requiring virtual machines. As the C-class enclosure is a deprecated platform, it is not a viable option to purchase additional HPE ProLiant blades.
The system is to be installed in APC AR3100 server cabinets (600mm w x 1070mm d), with APC AP8853 dual-fed power strips. All components MUST be compatible with this rack configuration. Two adjacent racks are available; it is assumed that one will be used for initial deployment and the second rack reserved for future expansion.

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Award information

Awarded date

28 February 2023

Contract start date

27 February 2023

Contract end date

26 February 2026

Total value of contract

£565,207.74

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Softcat PLC

Address

Thames Industrial Estate, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 1LW

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Mike Bennett

Address

Sackville House, Brooks Close, Lewes, East Sussex
Lewes
BN7 2FZ
ENG

Email

Michael.Bennett@surrey.police.uk