Data storage services

University College Dublin

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Storage Solution. UCD wishes to procure a storage solution to meet its University wide requirements for flexible file storage accessible by a wide variety of users and utilised by multiple applications. Typical applications include web accessible storage for students, archive storage, backup storage, mass storage for research groups, and collaborative storage for groups of users. The audience for this content includes staff, undergrad, postgrad and research students and the selected system must be capable of large-scale implementation and scalability. The scope of this project covers the implementation of: User storage access/interface software to facilitate easy access to storage and group collaboration internal and external to UCD. Information Life Cycle Software to facilitate the automatic policy based data archival to the appropriate storage media. Supply and implementation of associated hardware (online & nearline storage, backup, and servers) and systems software in compliance with UCD's high availability architecture. Maintenance, support and monitoring of the entire environment. Implementation and consultancy services to deliver the solution. Hosting and managed service for the complete solution (software & hardware). The University invites applications from any companies able to provide any of the above mentioned supplies or services. The tender may be divided into lots at the next stage and applicants can tender for one or more lots. Further information and additional documentation relating to this notice may be available on the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=30877.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2006-05-29. The procurement was published on 2006-05-04.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2006-04-30 Contract notice
Contract notice (2006-04-30)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Data storage services
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Regulation: European Communities, with participation by GATT countries
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Type of bid: Partial tender
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Main activity: Education

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: University College Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Contact
Internet address: www.ucd.ie ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Publication date: 2006-05-04 ๐Ÿ“…
Date received: 2006-04-30 ๐Ÿ“…
Date dispatched: 2006-04-28 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2006-05-29 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number (legacy): 90005-2006
OJ-S issue: 85/2006

Object
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Computer-related equipment ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Computer archiving services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Data storage services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Computer-related services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Source: OJS 2006/S 085-090005 (2006-04-30)