Published date: 18 December 2023

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


Closing: 20 November 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Servers - 48820000

  • Network servers - 48821000

  • Computer servers - 48822000

    • File servers - 48823000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

20231218110752-30091

Published date

18 December 2023

Closing date

20 November 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

21 November 2023

Contract end date

22 November 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 (SSP) operate the VMware vSphere hypervisor platform (version 7.0), currently using UCS blades 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). Both sites are utilising UCS 6454 fabric interconnects. SSP are currently looking to procure additional servicers for our Lewes and Brighton Data Centres.

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

18 December 2023

Contract start date

18 December 2023

Contract end date

17 December 2026

Total value of contract

£417,298.94

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Softcat PLC

Address

Thames Industrial Estate, 18/12/2023
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