Published date: 6 March 2025

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


Closing: 23 January 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Hardware - 44316400

Location of contract

NE1 8QH

Value of contract

£830,273.20

Procurement reference

008786 - Servers, Storage & Backup Refresh (RM6098)

Published date

6 March 2025

Closing date

23 January 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

28 February 2025

Contract end date

27 February 2030

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Contract awarded for 008786 - Servers, Storage & Backup Refresh (RM6098). Newcastle City Council (NCC) intends to refresh the Intel server, SAN and a portion of the backup infrastructure residing at both the primary data centre at NCC Civic Centre and secondary data centre at Sunderland. The Sunderland data centre is used as a backup site for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes; however, it is also capable of hosting active services. The sites are linked by a resilient pair of 10Gb ethernet connections.

Award information

Awarded date

18 February 2025

Contract start date

28 February 2025

Contract end date

27 February 2030

Total value of contract

£830,273.20

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES PLC

Address

James House, Warwick Road, Birmingham, B11 2LE

Reference

Companies House number: 01428210

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

James Wood

Address

Civic Centre
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
NE18QH
England

Telephone

01912777433

Email

James.Wood@newcastle.gov.uk