Within An Post, Group Technology Services (GTS), has responsibility for end to end management of the Checkpoint Firewall estate. Historically these have been deployed on premise spread across 2 x An Post owned and managed data centres located in the General Post Office (GPO) and Dublin Mail Centre (DMC). An Post is undergoing a modernisation program by which existing Information Systems and assets located in the GPO and DMC data centres are being migrated where possible to the cloud. Where there is an onsite requirement, those systems will be migrated to two new data centres which are based upon a co-located (CoLo) managed service model. Within the next 2 years the GPO data centre will be shut down while workloads in the Dublin Mail Centre (DMC) data centre will be greatly reduced. At present An Post has a number of physical and virtual Checkpoint Firewalls deployed across the GPO, DMC, CoLo1 and CoLo2 data centres. There are also a number of virtual Checkpoint firewalls in our cloud tenancies. An Post now wishes to tender for maintenance and support of these Checkpoint firewalls. The requirements contained in this notice are based on AN POST’S current requirements which are indicative only, are not exhaustive and are subject to change in line with the business needs and ongoing operational requirements of AN POST. NB - FOR THE PURPOSES OF PQQ, SUPPLIERS MUST SUBMIT A RESPONSE BY THE CLOSING DATE AS ADVERTISED.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2023-09-25.
The procurement was published on 2023-08-23.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: 2314 - Provision of Support and Maintenance for Checkpoint Firewalls
2314
Products/services: Maintenance of information technology software📦
Short description:
“Within An Post, Group Technology Services (GTS), has responsibility for end to end management of the Checkpoint Firewall estate. Historically these have...”
Short description
Within An Post, Group Technology Services (GTS), has responsibility for end to end management of the Checkpoint Firewall estate. Historically these have been deployed on premise spread across 2 x An Post owned and managed data centres located in the General Post Office (GPO) and Dublin Mail Centre (DMC). An Post is undergoing a modernisation program by which existing Information Systems and assets located in the GPO and DMC data centres are being migrated where possible to the cloud. Where there is an onsite requirement, those systems will be migrated to two new data centres which are based upon a co-located (CoLo) managed service model. Within the next 2 years the GPO data centre will be shut down while workloads in the Dublin Mail Centre (DMC) data centre will be greatly reduced. At present An Post has a number of physical and virtual Checkpoint Firewalls deployed across the GPO, DMC, CoLo1 and CoLo2 data centres. There are also a number of virtual Checkpoint firewalls in our cloud tenancies. An Post now wishes to tender for maintenance and support of these Checkpoint firewalls. The requirements contained in this notice are based on AN POST’S current requirements which are indicative only, are not exhaustive and are subject to change in line with the business needs and ongoing operational requirements of AN POST. NB - FOR THE PURPOSES OF PQQ, SUPPLIERS MUST SUBMIT A RESPONSE BY THE CLOSING DATE AS ADVERTISED.
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Additional products/services: Software maintenance and repair services📦
Additional products/services: Software-related services📦
Additional products/services: Software support services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Description of the procurement:
“Within An Post, Group Technology Services (GTS), has responsibility for end to end management of the Checkpoint Firewall estate. Historically these have...”
Description of the procurement
Within An Post, Group Technology Services (GTS), has responsibility for end to end management of the Checkpoint Firewall estate. Historically these have been deployed on premise spread across 2 x An Post owned and managed data centres located in the General Post Office (GPO) and Dublin Mail Centre (DMC). An Post is undergoing a modernisation program by which existing Information Systems and assets located in the GPO and DMC data centres are being migrated where possible to the cloud. Where there is an onsite requirement, those systems will be migrated to two new data centres which are based upon a co-located (CoLo) managed service model. Within the next 2 years the GPO data centre will be shut down while workloads in the Dublin Mail Centre (DMC) data centre will be greatly reduced. At present An Post has a number of physical and virtual Checkpoint Firewalls deployed across the GPO, DMC, CoLo1 and CoLo2 data centres. There are also a number of virtual Checkpoint firewalls in our cloud tenancies. An Post now wishes to tender for maintenance and support of these Checkpoint firewalls. The requirements contained in this notice are based on AN POST’S current requirements which are indicative only, are not exhaustive and are subject to change in line with the business needs and ongoing operational requirements of AN POST. NB - FOR THE PURPOSES OF PQQ, SUPPLIERS MUST SUBMIT A RESPONSE BY THE CLOSING DATE AS ADVERTISED.
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Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 36
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal ✅ Description
Description of renewals: Option to extend for further 24 months.
Procedure Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2023-09-25
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Complementary information Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement ✅
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 2028
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2023/S 164-517938 (2023-08-23)