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.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2014-06-26 Contract notice
Contract notice (2014-06-26)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Servers
Quantity or scope:
โ€œ540 000720 000โ€
Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Servers ๐Ÿ“ฆ

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Awarding authority name: Defence Forces Ireland
Postal address: McKee Barracks, Blackhorse Ave.
Postal code: 7
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
E-mail: jim.oneill@defenceforces.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 8046065 ๐Ÿ“ž

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-06-26 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2014-08-06 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2014-07-01 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 123-218777
OJ-S issue: 123
Additional information

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Source: OJS 2014/S 123-218777 (2014-06-26)