Expired contract

SAN's, Switches and Migration

Details

Value
£172,638.8
Duration
5 years
Topic
Hardware
Published
25 February 2021

Tender description

Procurement Project for: The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) has a project to replace both SAN's in Edinburgh and Oban as the current Dell EMC VNX5300's reach end of life and support on 31 December 2020 with a like for like replacement. In addition there are two Fibre switches currently in use at each site that are no longer under support due to their age. This equipment is critical to the running of the NLB's network infrastructure and their replacement must be carried out with the utmost speed. The NLB use VMware and host virtual servers disks on the datastores on these SAN's. These virtual servers encompass Email, Document Management, Database and Application Servers as well as our Citrix servers that are used for remote acess to data and applications. These servers are critical to the day to day operation of the NLB network. Data migration from the current VNX5300's to the new SAN's is also required.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date20 October 2020
  2. Completed: Award published25 February 2021
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 October 2025

About the buyer

Northern Lighthouse Board is the General Lighthouse Authority for Scotland and the Isle of Man, a central government agency with its own procurement team. The board maintains 208 lighthouses and 174 buoys along some of the UK's most exposed coastlines. Aviation services are procured jointly with Trinity House across their combined areas. Larger contracts, including its vessel replacement programme, go out to open, competitive tender under UK procurement legislation.

Over the past 5 years, most of Northern Lighthouse Board's contract awards have been in construction work, transport equipment and transport support and travel services.

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