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Telecommunication, Information Technology Market Research - ICT Infrastructure Support – Tape Library Review

Market Research - ICT Infrastructure Support – Tape Library Review

East Ayrshire Council has announced on 23 Sep 2021 that is accepting bids for the following project: Market Research - ICT Infrastructure Support – Tape Library Review.

The tender will take place in United Kingdom and will cover the Telecommunication industry.

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Location: United Kingdom

General information

Donor:

East Ayrshire Council

Industry:

Telecommunication

Information Technology

Status:

Accepting bids

Timeline

Published:

23 Sep 2021

Deadline:

Not available

Value:

Not available

Contacts

Name:

Lesley McLean

Phone:

+44 1563576183

Email: [email protected]

Description

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP428524

Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Directive 2014/24/EU - Public Sector Directive

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

East Ayrshire Council

London Road

Kilmarnock

KA3 7BU

Contact person: Lesley McLean

Telephone: +44 1563576183

E-mail: [email protected]

NUTS: UKM93

Internet address(es)

Main address: http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00223

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Market Research - ICT Infrastructure Support – Tape Library Review

II.1.2) Main CPV code

32571000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description

The purpose of this market research questionnaire is to gather information on the supply and approximate/indicative costs of a new Tape Library for EAC. This will allow the client service to review any potential budget shortfall for the delivery of this future project.

East Ayrshire Council currently utilise two Quantum Scalar i500 Tape Libraries – one with 2 drives and one with 4 drives. This integrates easily with our disk backup enabling us to have a tiered storage architecture which backs up data to tape. The warranty expires on these in March and April 2022 respectively. The tape library drives are end of service life, therefore we cannot renew the support on these, so our choice is to renew the drives or else renew the whole tape library. In order to keep the support on the drives and the chassis as the one entity, we are seeking to replace the libraries.

We have 6 x LTO6 drives in total and approximately 1000 LTO6 tapes.

The aim of this project is to replace the tape libraries by consolidating them into the one library, and replace with one similar; we believe the Scalar i6 to be a direct replacement. This would mean less drives and only one library therefore less renewals in the future. We must maintain compatibility with our existing LTO6 tapes so that these can still be read and restored from whilst we wait for the retention periods to expire. We propose to do this by using a mix of LTO7 drives and LTO8 or LTO9 drives. The reason behind this is that LTO8/9 drives can only read back one generation, therefore we require the LTO7 drive to read our LTO6 tapes.

II.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 150 000.00 GBP

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

32424000

50312610

72222300

44316400

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKM93

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

We have 6 x LTO6 drives in total and approximately 1000 LTO6 tapes.

II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:

01/03/2022

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information

Please complete the attached market research questionnaire and submit to [email protected],uk by 8th October 2021

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=668187.

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