Published date: 28 April 2016

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: 31 May 2016

Contract summary

Industry

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

  • Hardware disaster-recovery consultancy services - 72120000

  • Disaster recovery services - 72251000

Location of contract

B91 3QB

Value of contract

£100,000 to £500,000

Procurement reference

PROJECT - 00003690

Published date

28 April 2016

Closing date

31 May 2016

Contract start date

1 August 2016

Contract end date

31 July 2019

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?

No

Description

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council requires an ICT Disaster Recovery as a Service solution to provide resilience for key systems and applications. The solution will enable the recovery of HP and Sun servers (and the appropriate data related to them) from a Netbackup based disc and tape backup system. The preference is for Backups to be taken over private Ethernet connection from the Council's Data Centre to storage on the suppliers site.

The contract will commence on August 1st 2016 for an initial term of three years with 2 x 12 month extension options.

More information

Links

Additional text

Project values given account for 2 x 1 year extension options

Please visit www.csw-jets.co.uk to download tender documentation and submit a return

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

About the buyer

Contact name

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Procurement Team

Address

Manor Square
Solihull
Solihull
B91 3QB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 704 6089

Email

procurementteam@solihull.gov.uk