--- title: "Hyperconverged Infrastructure" ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752.json" source: "Public Contracts Scotland" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH" published: "2020-11-26" --- # Hyperconverged Infrastructure Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752.json) ## Summary The University of Edinburgh is currently in the planning stage for a procurement process titled "Hyperconverged Infrastructure." This initiative, classified under the education industry, aims to establish a central hosting facility as an internal on-premises cloud. The project is located in Edinburgh, with a future notice date set for 15 February 2021. This tender is being pursued through a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CPN) and is focused on achieving the most economically advantageous offer for the supply and installation of the required infrastructure. This procurement presents significant opportunities for businesses in the technology and cloud services sectors, particularly those experienced in hyperconverged infrastructure and related professional services. Companies that can provide efficient appliance-based infrastructures with integrated CPU, storage, and graphics capabilities will be well-positioned to compete. Additionally, businesses capable of offering innovative solutions demonstrating equivalent or superior functionality to existing VMware technologies may find a competitive edge in this tender. ## Notice 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland | | Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV400728 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 26 Nov 2020 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 15 Feb 2021 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH | | Locality | EDINBURGH | | Post town | Edinburgh | | Postcode | EH1 1HT | | Country | Scotland | | ITL 1 | TLM Scotland | | ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland | | ITL 3 | TLM13 City of Edinburgh | | Local authority | City of Edinburgh | | Electoral ward | City Centre | | Westminster constituency | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | | Delivery location | TLM75 City of Edinburgh | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 51 - Installation services (except software) - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### 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 ## Release History - 26 Nov 2020 at 00:00 - Planning - OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV400728 ## Documents - 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. ## Notice URLs - http:// - http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/procurement/supplying - https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000634752 - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=634752 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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