Published date: 23 April 2019
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.
Contract summary
Industry
Servers - 48820000
Location of contract
North West
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
PROGRESS001-DN398603-27571088
Published date
23 April 2019
Closing date
23 May 2019
Contract start date
1 July 2019
Contract end date
30 June 2024
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?
Yes
Description
Progress Housing Group are a Housing Association, managing 11,000 homes across the UK delivering housing related services for over 20 years. The main office is based in Leyland in Lancashire, the Group employ around 600 staff across 4 main office buildings, 3 in Leyland and one in Lytham St Annes, as well as another office in Leeds and satellite offices in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham. The main offices above are linked by point to point circuits and the smaller offices in Leeds and Lincoln all connect to the Groups Citrix XenDesktop environment over the internet using Netscaler gateways.
Progress Housing Group (PHG) are in the process of replacing their Hitachi SAN storage and HP Blade server environment due to this now reaching the end of is useful life. This tender is for the full replacement of this hardware, and software support maintenance, updates and any upgrades to be included.
Following the installation of the hardware, Progress Housing IT want to make a change to the Citrix XenDesktop environment in the way desktops are delivered. The 7 non-persistent desktop images will need to be delivered through Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) and changed from Provisioning Server (PVS). The It department will require assistance in this installing and configuring the servers, installing the software, setting up the processes for deliver and moving the existing images and in readying our base Windows 10 desktop for testing the new MCS environment.
Contract term
The Contract will be on a fixed 5 year term with an option to extend the maintenance on the solution annually thereafter.
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About the buyer
Contact name
Natalie Nolan
Address
Sumner House
21 King Street
Leyland
PR25 2LW
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 1772450949
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