Published date: 5 May 2023

Last edited date: 5 May 2023

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: 8 June 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

  • Disaster recovery services - 72251000

Location of contract

RM17 6SL

Value of contract

£350,000 to £400,000

Procurement reference

IT-392-1489-PS-2022-281

Published date

5 May 2023

Closing date

8 June 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 August 2023

Contract end date

31 July 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Please refer to the Council's website Thurrock Council for further details on the Council.

The Council's requirement under this Contract is for Cloud and On-premises solution for disaster recovery and business continuity arrangements. In summary:

1. To provide backup as a service
o Capability to provide continued or scheduled backups for data protection
o Immutable backup protection
o Insider Protection
o Encryption at rest and in transit

2. Disaster Recovery as a service
o Provision to restore and host 100% of virtual server environment to match or exceed the performance of Thurrock's network
o Provide private cloud compute to run a number of Active-Active services

3. Provide physical rackspace for potential hardware i.e. Physical firewalls.

4. Provide a private cloud for core Active-Active services.

5. Provide a Sandbox environment and support services for Bi-annual BCP testing (4-week event twice a year).

More information

Links

Additional text

Thurrock Council uses In-tend for all its tendering activity. Please use the link provided to apply for this contract.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/thurrockcouncil/aspx/Home

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Vanessa John

Address

New Road
Grays
Essex
RM17 6SL
United Kingdom

Telephone

01375 652652

Email

vanessa.john@thurrock.gov.uk