Virtualisation Infrastructure and Related Hardware/Services Framework Agreement

The University of Nottingham wishes to replace its existing virtualisation infrastructure platform to meet the growing needs of the University’s core business function for the next 5 years. The University is also looking to create a strategic relationship with the successful tenderer for the initial replacement but also through the formation of a framework agreement for ongoing requirements for a period up-to four years.

For the procurement to be considered successful it must:-

• 2x resource capacity increase above our current VM infrastructure and VMFS storage across both sites with significant resilience
• Migrate the current VM environment to the new infrastructure seamlessly
• Implement forms of auto and rule based tiering to manage different levels of VM provision
• Provide a new SAN capability that is connected to the current SAN network
• Provide future migration capability to move storage off the current SAN network
• Improve the scalability of the service in both VM and storage terms
• Minimise the environmental impact of the new installation
• Provide orchestration platform software to allow migration of VMs to the cloud and provision of cloud VMs in the future
• Provide cloud service availability to the University to provision cloud VMs
• Provide alerting, reporting and capacity management through existing Solarwinds functionality and new reporting software as required
• Provide showback/chargeback information of the VM estate
• Provide a 5 year warranty on all provided hardware in the solution
• Maintain a 4 year framework agreement to provide future VM and storage capacity both in the data centre and in the cloud.

This procurement relates to the creation of a framework agreement with a maximum duration of 48 months and is only accessible by The University of Nottingham.

Notes: The University is currently looking for a solution that is predominately based on-site within OUR datacentres, only limited cloud or co-location services will be considered at this point in time.

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Non-compliant expressions of interest (EOI) will not be considered or acknowledged. The university reserves the right to cancel the tender process at any stage. The University does not accept any liability for any costs incurred in tendering

To EXPRESS INTEREST:

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