Published date: 19 October 2021

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: 18 November 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£180,000

Procurement reference

DVNCC001-DN576093-10640314

Published date

19 October 2021

Closing date

18 November 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

4 January 2022

Contract end date

3 January 2025

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

Devon County Council (DCC) is seeking to engage with an IBM partner to provide a Managed Service for the support of an IBM\\AIX server installation that has recently been implemented.
 
The Corporate Finance Application has recently been migrated from an ageing IBM server to a new IBM Power9 server running AIX 7, with locally attached Storwize storage. In addition, a second IBM\\AIX server has been procured to provide a replication target for a DR capability. Replication is anticipated to use IBM Spectrum Virtualise Software, and it's Copy Services-Global Mirror capability.
 
With this being the only IBM\\AIX infrastructure at DCC, we have a requirement for a Managed Service from an IBM Partner with the necessary IBM\\AIX skills to keep the operating system and hardware healthy and patched, respond to, and resolve incidents\\failures, and to monitor and maintain the AIX storage replication between the two servers.

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All expressions of interest are to be registered on the Supplying the South West Procurement Portal that will then automatically release the procurement documentation.

About the buyer

Contact name

Iain Perkins

Address

County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter
EX2 4QD
England

Telephone

+44 1392383000

Email

Iain.Perkins@devon.gov.uk

Website

http://www.devon.gov.uk