Provision of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution, Associated Equipment and Services

Westmeath County Council

The contracting authority seeks an on-premise hyper converged infrastructure which can be integrated with public/private cloud infrastructure manageable via a single management interface to replace its legacy systems.
The contracting authority also requires an efficient and cost- effective solution for data backup, including physical and virtual machines, application aware and file level backup, and for disaster recovery for business-critical applications.
The contracting authority requires a disaster recovery solution hosted on site. The disaster recovery solution must cater for a range of scenarios such as the recovery of a single virtual machine to a catastrophic failure of the production site. The solution must facilitate the relocation of the production environment to the disaster recovery site.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-03-23. The procurement was published on 2021-02-12.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2021-02-12 Contract notice
Contract notice (2021-02-12)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Data storage services
Reference number: Hyperconverged Solution
Short description:
The contracting authority seeks an on-premise hyper converged infrastructure which can be integrated with public/private cloud infrastructure manageable via a single management interface to replace its legacy systems. The contracting authority also requires an efficient and cost- effective solution for data backup, including physical and virtual machines, application aware and file level backup, and for disaster recovery for business-critical applications. The contracting authority requires a disaster recovery solution hosted on site. The disaster recovery solution must cater for a range of scenarios such as the recovery of a single virtual machine to a catastrophic failure of the production site. The solution must facilitate the relocation of the production environment to the disaster recovery site.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Data storage services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Network equipment ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: Midland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

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: Regional or local authority
Awarding authority name: Westmeath County Council
Postal address: รras An Chontae, Mountstreet, County Westmeath
Postal code: N91 FH4N
Postal town: Mullingar
Contact
Internet address: http://www.westmeathcoco.ie/ ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: niall.mccormack@westmeathcoco.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 449332086 ๐Ÿ“ž
Fax: +353 449342330 ๐Ÿ“ 
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=182967&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=182967&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-02-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2021-03-23 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2021-02-17 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 033-082628
OJ-S issue: 33

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The contracting authority seeks an on-premise hyper converged infrastructure which can be integrated with public/private cloud infrastructure manageable via a single management interface to replace its legacy systems.
The contracting authority also requires an efficient and cost- effective solution for data backup, including physical and virtual machines, application aware and file level backup, and for disaster recovery for business-critical applications.
The contracting authority requires a disaster recovery solution hosted on site. The disaster recovery solution must cater for a range of scenarios such as the recovery of a single virtual machine to a catastrophic failure of the production site. The solution must facilitate the relocation of the production environment to the disaster recovery site.
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Estimated total value: 300 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Short description:
The contracting authority seeks an on-premise hyper converged Infrastructure which can be integrated with public/private cloud infrastructure manageable via a single management interface to replace its legacy systems.
The contracting authority requires a cost-effective solution that is flexible, scalable and will cater for future growth and business needs.
The contracting authority also requires an efficient and cost-effective solution for data backup, including physical and virtual machines, application aware and file level backup, and for disaster recovery for business-critical applications.
The contracting authority requires a disaster recovery solution hosted on site. The disaster recovery solution must cater for a range of scenarios such as the recovery of a single virtual machine to a catastrophic failure of the production site. The solution must facilitate the relocation of the production environment to the disaster recovery site in Athlone Civic Centre with minimal downtime. The contracting authority requires an RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 1 hour or less and an RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of 1 hour or less for all virtual machines in the disaster recovery facility.
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The contracting authority is operating in a dynamic environment and will have requirements to replicate additional Virtual Machines (VMs) to the DR facility, cease replication and remove VMs from DR, and modify resources on VMs which are being replicated.
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The contracting authority requires a secure, resilient, energy efficient solution that can cater for a wide range of applications and business needs including both structured data (databases) and unstructured data (emails, documents, video, etc.).
It will be the responsibility of Tenderers to accept full responsibility for the entirety of the solution they propose. Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with designated award criteria and associated rules and weightings, to identify the best solution.
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Estimated value excluding VAT: 300 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Duration: 60 months
Description of renewals: Possible 4 added years, see tender documents for details.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 17:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender opening date: 2021-03-23 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening time: 17:00
Place: Westmeath County Council, Aras on Chontae, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Niall McCormack
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1140 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=182967&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Westmeath County Council
Postal address: Aras on Chontae
Postal town: Mullingar
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Source: OJS 2021/S 033-082628 (2021-02-12)