Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Solution & Associated Equipment and Services for Donegal County Council

Donegal County Council

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.

Who?

• Donegal County Council

What?

Where?

• Northern and Western › Border

Procurement history

Date	Document
2022-11-11	Contract notice

Contract notice (2022-11-11)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Installation services of computers and information-processing equipment
Short description:

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Installation services of computers and information-processing equipment 📦
Additional CPV: Computer equipment and supplies 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Border 🏙️

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: Regional or local authority
Awarding authority name: Donegal County Council
Postal address: County House
Postal code: Lifford
Postal town: Co Donegal
Contact
Internet address: http://www.donegalcoco.ie 🌏
E-mail: sdunnion@donegalcoco.ie 📧
Phone: +353 749153900 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=228560&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=228560&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-11-11 📅
Submission deadline: 2022-12-15 📅
Publication date: 2022-11-16 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 221-636614
OJ-S issue: 221

Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 675 000 EUR 💰
Short description:

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.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 675 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 60 months
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.

Description of options:

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As stated in the procurement documents.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 6 months
Tender opening date: 2022-12-15 📅
Tender opening time: 12:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Sean Dunnion
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1193 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=228560&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

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
Same as: Review body
Source: OJS 2022/S 221-636614 (2022-11-11)

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