Published date: 20 November 2015

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: 21 December 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Computer storage units - 30233100

  • System, storage and content management software package - 48780000

  • Storage management software package - 48782000

    • Data storage services - 72317000

Location of contract

DE22 1GB

Value of contract

£0 to £1,000,000

Procurement reference

ITS/IANJ/2015

Published date

20 November 2015

Closing date

21 December 2015

Contract start date

25 January 2016

Contract end date

25 November 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University wishes to procure a cost-effective scale-out or hybrid storage solution for current and future requirements of unstructured and archive data. Solutions such as Scality, Cleversafe, Ceph, Gluster, EMC Isilon, NetApp Clustered Data Ontap or equivalent products will be considered. Solutions utilising cloud resources to manage older data such as Microsoft StorSimple or equivalent products will also be considered. The University would like to engage in a partnership to provide a robust platform and the agreement must include any future purchases on the same platform over the next 5 years should we wish to increase capacity or performance or both linearly. Pricing should be made clear in terms of the initial investment, and presented in terms of ongoing costs when scaling the platform up. The initial expected investment for day1 requirements as listed in this document is between £0-295k inclusive of VAT. Over a 5 year period, there may be future investments to add capacity up to a value of £1m.

More information

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Additional text

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/derby/aspx/

About the buyer

Contact name

JANE BRAILSFORD

Address

Derby
Derbyshire
Derbyshire
DE22 1GB
United Kingdom

Telephone

01332 592401

Email

j.brailsford@derby.ac.uk