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Speculative Notice

WCBC - Technical Consultant(s) for SAN/Backup Technologies

  • First published: 21 August 2020
  • Last modified: 21 August 2020

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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-103585
Published by:
Wrexham County Borough Council
Authority ID:
AA0264
Publication date:
21 August 2020
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Speculative Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Wrexham County Borough Council are looking to engage the market for a Technical Consultant(s) to provide technical support in the procurement of a new Storage Area Network (SAN) and Backup Technologies which will maybe run as two separate lots. As such we may require a technical consultant who specialises in SAN Technologies and one that specialises in Backup Technology, or someone who can provide technical support in both areas. The person(s) must have a proven track record of where they have conducted this type of technical support before and how the delivery of this support was undertaken/managed.

Full notice text

Speculative Notice – NATIONAL

SERVICES

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address


Wrexham County Borough Council

Finance, Commissioning Procurement and Contract Management Unit, Lampbit Street,

Wrexham

LL11 1AR

UK

Rachel Glynn

+44 1978292792

rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk

www.wrexham.gov.uk

1.2

Address from which further information may be obtained


Wrexham County Borough Council

Finance, Commissioning Procurement and Contract Management Unit, Lampbit Street,

Wrexham

LL11 1AR

UK

Rachel Glynn

+44 1978292792

rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk

www.wrexham.gov.uk

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

WCBC - Technical Consultant(s) for SAN/Backup Technologies

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Wrexham County Borough Council are looking to engage the market for a Technical Consultant(s) to provide technical support in the procurement of a new Storage Area Network (SAN) and Backup Technologies which will maybe run as two separate lots. As such we may require a technical consultant who specialises in SAN Technologies and one that specialises in Backup Technology, or someone who can provide technical support in both areas. The person(s) must have a proven track record of where they have conducted this type of technical support before and how the delivery of this support was undertaken/managed.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

48000000 Software package and information systems
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72100000 Hardware consultancy services
72200000 Software programming and consultancy services
72300000 Data services
72400000 Internet services
72500000 Computer-related services
72600000 Computer support and consultancy services
72900000 Computer back-up and catalogue conversion services
73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services
73100000 Research and experimental development services
73200000 Research and development consultancy services
73300000 Design and execution of research and development
1023 Flintshire and Wrexham

3 Administrative Information

3.1

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

Proc-20-15

3.2

Estimated Start of the Award Procedure

 05-10-2020

4 Other Information

4.1

Additional Information

Wrexham County Borough Council are looking to engage the market for a Technical Consultant(s) to provide technical support in the procurement of a new Storage Area Network (SAN) and Backup Technologies which will maybe run as two separate lots. As such we may require a technical consultant who specialises in SAN Technologies and one that specialises in Backup Technology, or someone who can provide technical support in both areas. The person(s) must have a proven track record of where they have conducted this type of technical support before and how the delivery of this support was undertaken/managed.

Please note that whoever is appointed to this role(s) will not be able to bid for the tender for this work.

WCBC’s environment is extensively VMWare Servers (340 VM’s) however there are standalone servers that will need to connect to the SAN.

The Technical Consultant(s) is to assist Wrexham County Borough Council with:

Design of both SAN and Backup solutions:

- Enterprise class solution

- Future proofing for five years investment

- Capacity saving tools

- SAN Fibre Fabric

- NVMe Hardware Integration

- Full flash capability and not SSD based disk for SAN Technologies.

- Sizing in terms of capacity and throughput of both solutions

- VTL/Disk/Cloud based backup repositories

Options for utilization of cloud technologies, especially around Backup.

Options for managed service for both solutions

Options for DR in the event we have to stand up VM’s in a cloud environment

Pit Falls to avoid and lessons learnt from past solutions and procurements.

Please can you provide detail of where you have done this before, what your skill set is and for which technology and send an overview to Rachel Glynn at the following email address:-

rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk

Responses must be sent to Rachel by 12 noon on Wednesday 9th September 2020.

(WA Ref:103585)

4.2

Download Additional Documentation

N/a

4.3

Publication date of this notice

 21-08-2020

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
72900000 Computer back-up and catalogue conversion services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72600000 Computer support and consultancy services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72500000 Computer-related services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72300000 Data services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
73300000 Design and execution of research and development Research and development services and related consultancy services
72100000 Hardware consultancy services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72400000 Internet services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support Computer and Related Services
73200000 Research and development consultancy services Research and development services and related consultancy services
73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services Research and Development
73100000 Research and experimental development services Research and development services and related consultancy services
48000000 Software package and information systems Computer and Related Services
72200000 Software programming and consultancy services IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Delivery locations

ID Description
1023 Flintshire and Wrexham

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:
rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk
Admin contact:
rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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