Tender for Data Centre Facilities and Migration Partner
The Council requires 2 industry leading co-location data centre facilities in the Manchester area to host a total of 20 racks split across both locations.
United Kingdom-Manchester: Information systems and servers
2017/S 146-301930
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Room 407, Town Hall
Manchester
M60 2LA
United Kingdom
Contact person: Mr Michael Shields
Telephone: +44 1612341009
E-mail: m.shields@manchester.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKD3
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.manchester.gov.uk
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
TC933 — Provision of Data Centre Facilities and Migration Partner.
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Manchester City Council’s Data Centre Strategy defines the migration from the existing Council-owned single data centre to 2 new co-location facilities providing a robust and resilient disaster recovery solution to meet tight business RPO and RTO across a range of services and applications.
The Council requires 2 industry leading co-location data centre facilities in the Manchester area to host a total of 20 racks split across both locations for an initial 3 year period. In addition, the successful supplier will provide migration services to assist the Council moving out of the existing data centre.
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Manchester City Council’s Data Centre Strategy defines the migration from the existing Council-owned single data centre to 2 new co-location facilities providing a robust and resilient disaster recovery solution to meet tight business RPO and RTO across a range of services and applications.
The Council requires 2 industry leading co-location data centre facilities in the Manchester area to host a total of 20 racks split across both locations for an initial 3 year period. In addition, the successful supplier will provide migration services to assist the Council moving out of the existing data centre.
The Council has some in house skills to migrate systems from the existing data centre to the two new data centres. These resources are limited in number and have existing commitments to business as usual service provision. Professional services are therefore required to bolster the Council’s migration team — this work will include physical hardware migrations, virtual machine migrations and associated networking, operating system and application configuration changes.
A new network infrastructure will be installed in the 2 new data centres — the design, supply, implementation and configuration of this network infrastructure is outside of the scope of this tender.
The Council’s existing data centre is approximately 6 years old and includes industry standard data centre infrastructure of a good quality standard — UPS, generators, electrical switchgear, air conditioning and rack units. Once migrations to the new data centres are complete the Council wishes to dispose of this equipment in the most economically advantageous manner and decommission the data centre in readiness for handing back the facility to the landlord.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The Contract contract can be extended up to an additional 48 months (4 years).
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:
As specified in the procurement documents.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
The Council is using the e-business portal known as The Chest (www.the-chest.org.uk) to conduct the procurement exercise. To gain access to the invitation to tender documents, tenderers will need to register their company details at the above website.
Once registered, tenderers will be emailed a login and password which will allow them to gain access to the Invitation to Tender documents.
Tenderers will need to electronically submit their completed tender documents and accompanying documentation via the Chest on-line portal by 11:00 on 31.8.2017, as referred to in IV.2.2) above. Any supplier questions/queries will also need to be submitted via The Chest portal, using it’s messaging facility.
The Council welcomes applications from small or medium enterprises (SMEs).
Under the agreement the provider will be required to support the Council’s economic and social regeneration objectives. Therefore selection and award criteria, specification requirements and contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations.
VI.4.1)Review body
N/A
United Kingdom
VI.4.3)Review procedure
The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the Contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into, the Court may only award damages.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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