Awarded contract

Provision of Servers for Sussex Data Centres

Details

Supplier(s)
Softcat PLC
Topic
Servers
Published
18 December 2023

Tender description

Sussex Police and Surrey Police (SSP) operate the VMware vSphere hypervisor platform (version 7.0), currently using UCS blades as ESXi nodes. NetApp storage, attached via a mix of Cisco MDS fibre channel switches and NFS, provides the back-end storage, and a Cisco LAN using Nexus 7706 core switches and Nexus 2K fabric extenders as ToR switches. The Nexus 7706 supports 10GbE ports, and the Cisco MDS FC switches supports 32Gbps or lower (32Gbps being preferred for UCS uplinks). Both sites are utilising UCS 6454 fabric interconnects. SSP are currently looking to procure additional servicers for our Lewes and Brighton Data Centres.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published18 December 2023
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date18 December 2023

About the buyer

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex is an elected blue light body that holds Sussex Police's Chief Constable to account for force performance. Procurement runs through a joint service shared with Surrey Police, covering both forces' commercial needs. The Commissioner sets the force's budget and the local policing precept. Victim support services and community safety grants are commissioned directly by the office.

Over the past 5 years, most of The Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex's contract awards have been in software and information systems, IT services and repair and maintenance.

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