UKRI DDaT19266 IUK Private Cloud Hosting and Support Services

UK Shared Business Services Ltd acting on behalf of the contracting authority United Kingdom Research and Innovation have put in place a contract for cloud hosting and support services for the following UKRI platforms:

1)_Connect;

2. Grants;
3. KTP.

As part of the ongoing hosting and maintenance service provision, a series of service enhancements and upgrades have been agreed, which will be delivered over the term of the forthcoming contract. These upgrades and enhancements are:

1. Implementation of new load balancer on Connect and Grants;
2. Implementation of new monitoring and network control systems;
3. Upgrade of all core firewall firmware to the latest versions (currently on latest branch);
4. Switch to new virtualisation and storage platform;
5. Deployment of new DNS infrastructure to remove reliable on static host files;
6. Upgrade of all sub-systems to Debian 9 or 10;
7. Upgrade of Apache Solr and MySQL to latest versions;
8. Rewrite of all firewall rules to improve security and reduce load on new firewall appliances;
9. Implementation of automatic penetration testing;
10. Rebuild of the Atlassian DevTools stack within AWS - latest version (currently on latest in branch) and improved scaling/resilience;
11. Liferay (6.2) Upgrade completion;
12. OpenAM Upgrade completion.

This contract has been awarded in alignment with the Crown Commercial Services RM1557.11 G Cloud 11 framework