Date of dispatch of this notice: 28/01/2018
Expire date: 08/03/2018
External Reference: ca6ff3e5-7497-48ec-99c3-c677fd2278b7
Date of dispatch of this notice: 28/01/2018
Expire date: 08/03/2018
External Reference: ca6ff3e5-7497-48ec-99c3-c677fd2278b7
Official name: GMCA-Greater Manchester Police
Url: http://www.gmp.police.uk/
Address line 1: Openshaw Complex, Lawton Street, Openshaw
Town: Manchester
Postal Code: M11 2NS
Country: England
Contact person: procurement@gmp.police.uk
E-mail: procurement@gmp.police.uk
Phone:
Title attributed to the contract: Provision for Data Centre Virtualisation and Managed Service.
Description:
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) as the Contracting Authority for Greater Manchester Police, is seeking to let a single contract to a single Supplier to provide a Managed Service covering the following requirements: a) Design, delivery and management of transitions of all GMP services from the old Data Centre service to the new Service (moving all in-scope services to a virtual infrastructure). b) Design, provision, management and support, up to and including the OS layer, of infrastructure including: • virtual machines; and • physical machines; The contract duration will be for a period of 5 years followed by an option to extend for a further 2 years on a 1+1 basis, subject to funding and contractor performance. The contract will also be open to be accessed by the following contracting authority: Trafford Borough Council. To express your interest please visit the link https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=UK and register your details followed by down loading the tender documents from the Blue Light portal. Please note this is a 2 stage restricted tender process, bidders who qualify the SQ/PQQ stage will only be invited to submit the ITT invitation to tender. Please be mindful of the closing dates of the tenders as GMP will not be liable for any late submissions. Bidders are strongly advised not to communicate (directly/email or during other site visits) with any other persons at GMP Police concerning this tender exercise. Bidders who fail to comply with this requirement, will automatically be excluded from participating with this tender and possibly other future GMP tender opportunities. All clarification correspondences must come via the Blue Light Portal.
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This tender process is being conducted through the Bluelight e-tendering portal. In the interests of fairness and transparency, accountability and auditability, all communication regarding this tender must be made through the ‘Discussion’ facility of the Bluelight portal. No other methods of communication will receive a response.