Published date: 10 June 2015

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


Closing: 16 June 2015

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£2,000 to £5,000

Procurement reference

TPR

Published date

10 June 2015

Closing date

16 June 2015

Contract start date

6 July 2015

Contract end date

10 July 2015

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The scope of this project is to engage with a vendor-agnostic 3rd party to advise TPR of any shortcomings or potential improvements with our current backup solution(s). TPR currently uses a number of different products to backup and replicate data, some of which have not been updated for over a year. TPR runs a 99% virtualised environment using VMWare products and when the backup solution was implemented in 2007, physical servers were still in use. There may a case for investigating more efficient backup methods and architectures. We would therefore like consultation on the following areas:

- recommended best platform or process for backup of SQL servers - Netbackup agent/maintenance plan/other technology
- is Netbackup still best suited to our environment? we currently have a mix of the following technologies:
1. Netbackup v7.5
2. Veeam
3. Datacore replication
4. SQL mirroring
- TPR is still using LTO3 tapes - any benefit of upgrading to LTO6?
- Set up/tweak retention periods in line with best practice - currently a lot of time spent manually expiring backup tapes
- Check for duplicate backups, and backups of backups.
- Check Falconstor setup and version - also deduplication and replication schedules - upgrade if needed
- Check Veeam setup and version - upgrade if needed

More information

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The timescale and costs are estimates.

Award information

Awarded date

24 July 2015

Contract start date

3 August 2015

Contract end date

2 August 2016

Total value of contract

£2,760

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Bluesource Information Ltd

Address

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1NB

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Denise Potts Morton

Address

Napier House
Trafalgar St
Brighton
BN1 4DW
England

Telephone

01273 648417

Email

denise.pottsmorton@thepensionsregulator.gsi.gov.uk