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title: "High Capacity Storage System"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04b31f"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT"
published: "2025-01-27"
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# High Capacity Storage System

Buyer: SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04b31f

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## Summary

The Scottish Government, through its Marine Directorate, is procuring a high capacity storage system to support its data collection needs across various formats, primarily at locations in Aberdeen and Pitlochry. This procurement falls under the Computer Storage Units industry category, and the process is currently at the active tender stage, with the tender period scheduled to end on 2nd December 2024. The total estimated value for this procurement is £400,000, with contract activities expected to commence on 15th January 2025 and conclude on 31st March 2025. The procurement process follows an open procedure and involves the submission of electronic responses.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in high capacity storage solutions, data management, and IT infrastructure services. The scope and requirements outlined suggest that companies with expertise in technical solutions, installation, training, and ongoing support would be particularly well-suited to compete. Additionally, businesses experienced in large-scale data storage systems, including redundancy and failover protections, will find the tender highly relevant. The focus on technical competency, environmental management, and comprehensive quality assurance criteria reflects the importance of reliable and secure data solutions for government operations.

## Notice

The Scottish Ministers invites tenders for the purchase of a high capacity storage system. The Marine Directorate (MD), a directorate of the Scottish Government, as a whole collects large volumes of data on an annual basis. The data collected serves many of the directorate's needs for evidence to underpin policy development, and to meet statutory or legal requirement of Scottish Government.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Scottish Ministers invites tenders for the purchase of a high capacity storage system. The Marine Directorate (MD), a directorate of the Scottish Government, as a whole collects large volumes of data on an annual basis. The data collected serves many of the directorate's needs for evidence to underpin policy development, and to meet statutory or legal requirement of Scottish Government. Some data are managed within dedicated databases, but a substantial amount of the data does not lend itself well to being stored in databases. Data in larger volume formats such as video, images, and acoustic files are stored within a scale-out storage system based at the Aberdeen and Pitlochry sites. This high capacity storage provides protection through site to site replication, as well as disk failover protection that safeguards the investment made in the collection of data. A new storage system was installed in 2022, delivering increased capacity, bringing the total usable disk space to 430 TB across the directorate (Dell Isilon system). This replaced previous storage technologies that had reached capacity, and introduces ransomware protection to the system as well.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002643-2025 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 27 Jan 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 2 Dec 2024 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 9 Jan 2025 |
| Contract period | 15 Jan 2025 - 31 Mar 2025 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £400,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £353,697 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT |
| Locality | ABERDEEN |
| Post town | Aberdeen |
| Postcode | AB11 9DB |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM5 North Eastern Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM50 Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire |
| Local authority | Aberdeen City |
| Electoral ward | Torry/Ferryhill |
| Westminster constituency | Aberdeen South |
| Delivery location | TLM50 Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | COMPUTACENTER (UK |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 30233100 - Computer storage units
- 48800000 - Information systems and servers
- 48810000 - Information systems

## Release History

- 27 Jan 2025 at 08:39 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002643-2025
- 1 Nov 2024 at 08:39 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035410-2024

## Notice URLs

- http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
- http://www.scotland.gov.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000782099
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=538689
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA10482
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

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