Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
City & County of Swansea
Civic Centre
Swansea
SA1 3SN
UK
Telephone: +44 1792637242
E-mail: procurement@swansea.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL18
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.swansea.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0254
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Swansea Council Date Centre Migration to new site
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72220000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Swansea Council has published this Prior Information Notice (‘PIN’) to seek to establish market options for support to migrate services from the current in house DC to a new DC located within the City Centre.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72100000
72130000
72220000
72228000
48820000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL18
Main site or place of performance:
Civic Centre, Wales, UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Swansea Council has published this Prior Information Notice (‘PIN’) to seek to establish market options for support to migrate services from the current in house DC to a new DC located within the City Centre.
Swansea Council is comprised of three networks, Corporate (324 servers), Education (100 servers) and Library (4 servers) with the majority being Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2016. There is a small mix of previous Microsoft Server editions and some Linux systems. A number of POC’s are progressing to the Council’s Azure cloud environment to make it a viable migration and hosting location.
The current DC is configured into 34 racks with a mixture of infrastructure all reaching the end of operational life. Swansea Council also has a secondary server room located at the Guildhall building situated a mile away from the Civic Centre. This provides communications to the main DC, server and storage replication services.
A suitably refurbished DC in a different location is to be used by the Council. The migration needs to be completed by December 2023. The Council will consider using a hybrid approach of new on premise and cloud infrastructure to migrate and maintain ongoing services at the new DC.
We would be interested in hearing from you if you:
- Provide consultancy to migrate from an on premise to a Hybrid DC environment similar to the Council’s requirements.
Please respond to Andrew Morris, Digital Project Manager on andrew.morris@swansea.gov.uk by the 24th July 2020.
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
01/10/2020
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Responses to this Prior Information Notice are understood by all parties to be purely informal and will not form part of any subsequent
procurement process.
Not responding to this Prior Information Notice shall not prevent any economic operator from participating in any future procurement
process.
The publication of this Prior Information Notice does not signify the beginning of any formal procurement process and does not constitute
a commitment by the Council to undertake any future procurement process.
The Council may withdraw or amend any information contained in this Prior Information Notice at any time and without notice
(WA Ref:102753)
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
07/07/2020