Published date: 5 November 2019

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: 13 November 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Storage media - 30234000

  • Data-bearing media - 32584000

Location of contract

W1T 1LN

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

2019/218

Published date

5 November 2019

Closing date

13 November 2019

Contract start date

18 November 2019

Contract end date

18 December 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The BFI has a requirement for certified data tape stock. The BFI's new Digital Preservation Infrastructure has a dual data library system, which incorporates separate, automated LTO6 and IBM TS1150 data tape robots. Therefore, both LTO6 and IBM sets of stock are required to provide secure and resilient long term data preservation. Certified stock is necessary to fulfil the performance and warrantee criteria essential to the very stringent requirements of the BFI DPI system.

The delivery schedule for the supply of the above is to be by no later Wednesday 18th December 2019 - bidders must confirm that they able to meet this delivery schedule as part of their response to this tender

More information

Links

Additional text

To take part in this tender, please visit our website, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/bfi/aspx/Tenders/Current , where you will need to register, if you haven't already, and express an interest in this opportunity to access the relevant documents. Please note expressions of interest will only be accepted via the portal.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Stephen Adams

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
London
W1T 1LN
United Kingdom

Telephone

0207 9574849

Email

stephen.adams@bfi.org.uk