Awarded contract

Replacement Network Load Balancers

Details

Supplier(s)
Softcat PLC
Value
£175,870.68
Duration
5 years
Topic
Network equipment
Published
15 March 2022

Tender description

This Procurement covers the supply and support of four replacement NLB (network load balancer) appliances: • Two production appliances; one to be housed in Astro House, and the other in Building 36 at Highfield Campus. • Two Pre-Production appliances; one to be housed in Astro House, and the other in Building 36 at Highfield Campus. o These will be used to handle incoming traffic on the Pre-Production instances of our hosted services, allowing us to test any changes prior to rolling out in production on Campus. o Additionally, this allows us to test new firmware releases in a non-service affecting environment before committing to installation in Production. • Recommendations from supplier and vendor regarding implementation best practices, and available functionality not currently utilised.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date14 March 2022
  2. Completed: Award published15 March 2022
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date13 April 2027in 5 months

About the buyer

University of Southampton is a higher education institution whose procurement team runs tenders and quotations under its own financial regulations. Many contracts are awarded through framework agreements managed by the Southern Universities Procurement Consortium. Purchasing teams raise orders and requisitions for faculties and professional service groups. Procurement thresholds set the route to market, ranging from a single quotation to a formal tender.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Southampton's contract awards have been in software and information systems, office and computing equipment and architectural and engineering services.

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