Notice Information
Notice Title
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Notice Description
The University is seeking to provide a central hosting facility delivered as an internal on-premises cloud to support its comprehensive suite of digital services and applications including a cloud-native development platform delivering containerised services orchestrated through Kubernetes.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The purpose of this procurement exercise is to achieve most economically and advantageous offer for the supply and installation of a Hyperconverged Infrastructure by Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CPN). The University is seeking to provide a central hosting facility delivered as an internal on-premises cloud to support its comprehensive suite of digital services and applications including a cloud-native development platform delivering containerised services orchestrated through Kubernetes. This is for Enterprise Infrastructure seeking to provide a central hosting facility for the University's on-premise Enterprise Services and for services hosted in schools and colleges. The University currently operates several server clusters attached to a storage area network that spans multiple data centres. The estate size is roughly eighty hypervisors and around 1.3PB of used storage. These servers are running VMware's vSphere hypervisor to provide an internal virtualised hosting platform. In order to get best value that meets the above requirements we wish to replace our existing storage, storage fabric and server hosting infrastructure with a Hyperconverged Infrastructure that provides tightly coupled storage, compute and small but growing graphics capabilities. The hardware procured should provide a turnkey management solution to reduce operational costs. We may also procure professional services along with the hardware to assist with its installation and configuration. The solution should provide all necessary software to configure and maintain the solution procured and interface with monitoring and virtualisation software. The procured solution will underpin the virtual hosting services provided by the University's Information Services.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV400728
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
51 - Installation services (except software)
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
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- CPV Codes
51611100 - Hardware installation services
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72100000 - Hardware consultancy services
72222300 - Information technology services
72228000 - Hardware integration consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 26 Nov 20205 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 15 Feb 2021Expired
- 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
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
- Contact Name
- Elliot Freeman
- Contact Email
- elliot.freeman@ed.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH1 1HT
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM75 City of Edinburgh
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- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- City Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV400728
Hyperconverged Infrastructure - The University is seeking to provide a central hosting facility delivered as an internal on-premises cloud to support its comprehensive suite of digital services and applications including a cloud-native development platform delivering containerised services orchestrated through Kubernetes.
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