A15/3445/HMC16/14 - Rackmount and Blade Servers

Defence Forces Ireland

The Irish Defence Forces invites tenders for the supply and maintenance support of Server Hardware with ancillaries to include 19โ€ Rack Mountable 1U, 2U and blade type server hardware. These mission critical servers are required to provide services running mainly on Windows Server based operating systems including Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The servers will be used in outposts, overseas, data centres and server rooms across the Defence Forces organisation.
The aim of the tender competition is to put in place a draw down framework contract, which will include a set of three generic base models of server for deployment throughout the Defence Forces. Server platforms must include:
Entry-level โ€“ for outposts/overseas, low level application servers.
Mid-level for virtualisation โ€“ Regional HQs, data centres High specification level for virtualisation โ€“ For high density virtualisation in data
centre environment.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2014-08-06. The procurement was published on 2014-06-26.

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Procurement history
Date Document
2014-06-26 Contract notice