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title: "Hyper Convergence Infrastructure, Back Up, and Disaster Recovery Solution"
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# Hyper Convergence Infrastructure, Back Up, and Disaster Recovery Solution

Buyer: COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c8088354-496d-444a-9202-5d5c6369c9ee

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## Summary

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has completed a procurement process for a Hyper Convergence Infrastructure, Back Up, and Disaster Recovery Solution valued at £238,695. This tender falls under the Network Infrastructure category and is part of a strategy to optimise and centralise IT resources during the organisation's relocation from Holborn to Canary Wharf in 2019. The procurement method utilised was a selective process, with the tender period ending on 29 November 2018, and the contract effective from 18 December 2018 until 17 December 2022.

This tender offers a unique opportunity for businesses specialising in IT infrastructure and cloud solutions to grow and expand their market reach, particularly those that can provide modern, hybrid cloud management strategies. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may find this contract particularly attainable, as the procurement specifications reflect a need for innovative solutions that align with the CMA's future-facing IT strategy, demonstrating a willingness to engage with agile and resource-efficient players in the market.

## Notice

The CMA has embarked on an ambitious cloud first transformation strategy with a need to restructure and review the existing storage, compute and backup infrastructure in time of an office relocation from Holborn to Canary Wharf in 2019, reducing physical infrastructure from two datacentres into one. This strategy seeks to reduce our physical hardware overall associated costs and resources required to run two data centres. The current infrastructure platform has organically grown over the years, a result of a merger between the Competition Commission and the Office for Fair Trading in April 2014, the datacentre infrastructure was never designed for cloud scale and requires new technology to follow best practices and deliver application performance and availability across a modernised hybrid infrastructure. At the time that his merger took place the HCI solution was not widely known or available as an option for the CMA IT department to pursue. CMA has also moved applications to Microsoft's Public Cloud, Azure, which requires an improved data management strategy, for both production and backup data. We are seeking an HCI hardware solution that provides value for money in the long term and aligns with the CMA's ICT strategic aims to ensure our IT systems are secure, future facing and provide the best customer experience for our staff. We are also seeking a back up and DR orchestration solution that best meets the needs of an organisation of our size and type, taking into account our hybrid cloud strategy.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bb68573d-3bfc-4089-8aa5-1aa80e420c76 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a framework agreement |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 8 Apr 2019 |
| Submission deadline | 29 Nov 2018 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 17 Dec 2018 |
| Contract period | 18 Dec 2018 - 17 Dec 2022 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £238,695 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £238,695 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | Central London |
| Postcode | WC1B 4AD |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI36 Camden |
| Local authority | Camden |
| Electoral ward | Bloomsbury |
| Westminster constituency | Holborn and St Pancras |
| Delivery location | TLI London |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | SOFTCAT |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 32 - Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

### Codes

- 32424000 - Network infrastructure

## Release History

- 8 Apr 2019 at 11:10 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bb68573d-3bfc-4089-8aa5-1aa80e420c76

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bb68573d-3bfc-4089-8aa5-1aa80e420c76
  8th April 2019 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

## Provenance

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