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Contract Award Notice

Data Centre Storage, Computing and Hypervisor Environment Replacement - GGH & WGH

  • First published: 22 November 2024
  • Last modified: 22 November 2024

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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-146255
Published by:
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
Authority ID:
AA0221
Publication date:
22 November 2024
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
Yes

Abstract

Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) have awarded a contract for the replacement of their existing hypervisor software and hardware which includes its Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B200 environment, HPe Nimble CS3000 storage and VMWare environment within the data centers at Glangwili General Hospital (GGH) and Withybush General Hospital (WGH). The existing UCS and Nimble equipment is reaching end of life this calendar year and the VMWare hypervisor solution will be replaced. It is essential to replace the hardware as it will become unsupported should any faults arise, and the server environment holds 359 virtual servers at GGH and 121 at WGH which provide over 300 IT services across the Health Board. The contract will be initiated utilising the NPS Framework Agreement for IT Products and Services (ii) (NPS-ICT-0094-19) under Lot Five (5) Digital Solutions.

Full notice text

CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – NATIONAL

SUPPLIES

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address


NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)

Hywel Dda University Health Board Procurement Team, Tŷ Gorwel, Building 14 St David’s Park,

Carmarthen

SA31 3BB

UK

Josh Wood

+44 1443848585

josh.wood@wales.nhs.uk

http://nwssp.nhs.wales/ourservices/procurement-services/

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Data Centre Storage, Computing and Hypervisor Environment Replacement - GGH & WGH

2.2

Description of the contract

Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) have awarded a contract for the replacement of their existing hypervisor software and hardware which includes its Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B200 environment, HPe Nimble CS3000 storage and VMWare environment within the data centers at Glangwili General Hospital (GGH) and Withybush General Hospital (WGH). The existing UCS and Nimble equipment is reaching end of life this calendar year and the VMWare hypervisor solution will be replaced. It is essential to replace the hardware as it will become unsupported should any faults arise, and the server environment holds 359 virtual servers at GGH and 121 at WGH which provide over 300 IT services across the Health Board.

The contract will be initiated utilising the NPS Framework Agreement for IT Products and Services (ii) (NPS-ICT-0094-19) under Lot Five (5) Digital Solutions.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

32420000 Network equipment
32580000 Data equipment
1014 South West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion)

2.4

Estimated Total Value

1779760.57 GBP

3 Procedure

3.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4 Award of Contract

4.1

Successful Bidders

4.1.1

Name and Address of successful supplier, contractor or service provider





Softcat Plc

Solar House, Fieldhouse Lane,

Marlow

SL7 1LW

UK




5 Other Information

5.1

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

P0121 - HDD-MIN-56330

5.2

Date of Contract Award

 01-11-2024

5.3

Number of tenders received

2

5.4

Other Information

(WA Ref:146255)

5.5

Additional Documentation

N/a

5.6

Publication date of this notice:

 22-11-2024

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
32580000 Data equipment Telecommunications equipment and supplies
32420000 Network equipment Networks

Delivery locations

ID Description
1014 South West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion)

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:
josh.wood@wales.nhs.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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