Notice Information
Notice Title
Backup Solution
Notice Description
Wrexham Country Borough Council are looking to engage with the market in advance of procuring a new backup system. Background The current environment is located across two datacentres connected by 40Gb local fibre backbone. The large majority of servers are virtualised using VMware connected to an IBM FlashSystem. There are a total of 320 servers, details on Server Types and Operating System are below: Server Type / Server Count Virtual Servers (VMWare) - 316 Physical Servers - 4 Total - 320 Operating Systems / Server Count Windows - 294 Linux - 26 Total - 320 Currently there are 110TB of data in use, a breakdown of the data types is below: Data Type / TB File - 27 Oracle - 2 SQL - 14 VDI - 4 VM - 63 Total - 110 Connectivity to the network is possible by 25Gb fibre and to the storage fabric network by 32Gb fibre. Solution Requirements The backup solution should incorporate the 3-2-1 backup rule, a copy of backup data in each datacentre and an offsite copy in the cloud. The below table gives details around Data Size, Growth, Change Rates and Recovery Points and Retention Periods that we require: Data Size - 110TB Yearly Growth Rate - 5% Daily Change Rate - 7TB Recovery Points - Daily 31d, Weekly 7w, Monthly 12m, Yearly 1y Retention Period - 31d Local, 1yr Cloud* *Depending on cost increased retention maybe an option The possibility of a managed service would be of interest and would like to investigate this as an option. Mailbox data is currently being moved to Office 365 with further data expected to move in the future, we would like to explore the options for backing up O365. The solution must be able to capable of performing immutable backups. Please email your response with an overview of your solution/service to Rachel Sanders, Category Manager by 12noon on Tuesday 8th March 2022 to rachel.sanders@wrexham.gov.uk. Please only provide information in response to the above. Please include the reference: PROC21-188 in the subject heading of your e-mail response. Please note that we may wish to speak to you regarding your response w/c 21st March 2022.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03217c
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006882-2022
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
-
- CPV Codes
48710000 - Backup or recovery software package
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 14 Mar 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 31 May 2022Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WREXHAM COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- rachel.sanders@wrexham.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1978292794
Buyer Location
- Locality
- WREXHAM
- Postcode
- LL11 1AR
- Post Town
- Llandudno
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL3 North Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL34 Flintshire and Wrexham
- Delivery Location
- TLL23 Flintshire and Wrexham
-
- Local Authority
- Wrexham
- Electoral Ward
- Grosvenor
- Westminster Constituency
- Wrexham
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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