Donegal County Council is seeking the supply and installation of Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution at our headquarters in Lifford, County Donegal. The solution must include all relevant hardware and software to enable an active/active deployment encompassing High Availability and Disaster Recovery and meeting the solution requirements detailed hereunder. We are seeking a stretched cluster design and that each side of the cluster should be capable of running 100% of the workload.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-12-15.
The procurement was published on 2022-11-11.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Solution & Associated Equipment and Services for Donegal County Council”
Products/services: Installation services of computers and information-processing equipment📦
Short description:
“Donegal County Council is seeking the supply and installation of Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution at our headquarters in Lifford, County Donegal. The...”
Short description
Donegal County Council is seeking the supply and installation of Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution at our headquarters in Lifford, County Donegal. The solution must include all relevant hardware and software to enable an active/active deployment encompassing High Availability and Disaster Recovery and meeting the solution requirements detailed hereunder. We are seeking a stretched cluster design and that each side of the cluster should be capable of running 100% of the workload.
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Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 675 000 💰
Donegal County Council is seeking the supply and installation of Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution at our headquarters in Lifford, County Donegal. The solution must include all relevant hardware and software to enable an active/active deployment encompassing High Availability and Disaster Recovery and meeting the solution requirements detailed hereunder. We are seeking a stretched cluster design and that each side of the cluster should be capable of running 100% of the workload.
The primary datacentre is located on the second floor of the County House building. The secondary datacentre is located 260m down the street on the ground floor of the ‘Three Rivers Centre’ building complete with independent power and independent networking. The buildings are connected via switch stacks at both ends comprising of 4 x Cisco Catalyst 9200L 10G switches. These are 40Gbps stacks with a 20GB fibre trunk connection between the County House and the Three Rivers Centre. Both datacentres are connected to Government Networks via separate 1GB links for added resiliency.
The Contracting Authority requires an efficient and cost-effective fully integrated on-premise and Cloud based solution that will deliver compute & storage resources, including replication, backup and disaster recovery for all virtual machines. The solution must be application aware and file level backup enabled for all business applications and also be capable of backing up a small number of physical servers.
Existing Donegal County Council VMware software licensing must be re-used within the solution proposed. Any additional licensing uplift / upgrade costs, required to enable the relevant solution features / functionality, must be included and detailed within the proposal.
Support and maintenance for the complete solution for a period of 5 x years must be included, including backup retention which meets the SLA required and detailed in Section 1.4.
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Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 675 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 60
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal ✅ Description
Description of renewals:
“The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the term for a period or periods of up to two (2) years with a maximum of two (2) such extension or...”
Description of renewals
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the term for a period or periods of up to two (2) years with a maximum of two (2) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
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Options ✅
Description of options:
“The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the term for a period or periods of up to two (2) years with a maximum of two (2) such extension or...”
Description of options
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the term for a period or periods of up to two (2) years with a maximum of two (2) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions: As stated in the procurement documents.
Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract
Procedure Type of procedure
Open procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-12-15
12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2022-12-15
12:00 📅
Complementary information Review body
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧 Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧 Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧
Source: OJS 2022/S 221-636614 (2022-11-11)