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 19” 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 – for outposts/overseas, low level application servers.
Mid-level for virtualisation – Regional HQs, data centres High specification level for virtualisation – 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: 540 000720 000
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Servers 📦

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
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 📧
Phone: +353 8046065 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-06-26 📅
Submission deadline: 2014-08-06 📅
Publication date: 2014-07-01 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 123-218777
OJ-S issue: 123
Additional information
To receive more information about this tender, including any amendments and/or clarifications and to request any clarifications and/or to respond to this tender, you must register your interest to this tender on the following site: https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=77213&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 540 000 💰
720 000 💰
Short description:
The Irish Defence Forces invites tenders for the supply and maintenance support of Server Hardware with ancillaries to include 19” 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.
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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 – for outposts/overseas, low level application servers.
Mid-level for virtualisation – Regional HQs, data centres High specification level for virtualisation – For high density virtualisation in data
centre environment.
Variants will be accepted ✅
Duration: 36 months
Reference number: A15/3445/HMQ16/14
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As per RFT
Economic and financial standing: As per RFT
Minimum level(s) of standards: As per RFT
Technical and professional ability: As per RFT

Procedure
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 3
Tender validity period: 6 months
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Jim O'Neill

Reference
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: A15/3445/HMQ16/14
Source: OJS 2014/S 123-218777 (2014-06-26)
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