Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Wrexham County Borough Council
Commissioning Procurement and Contract Management Unit, Lampbit Street
Wrexham
LL11 1AR
UK
Telephone: +44 1978292794
E-mail: rachel.sanders@wrexham.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL23
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.wrexham.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0264
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
Backup Solution
Reference number: PROC21-188
II.1.2) Main CPV code
48710000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
Wrexham Country Borough Council are looking to engage with the market in advance of procuring a new backup system.
Background
The current environment is located across two datacentres connected by 40Gb local fibre backbone. The large majority of servers are virtualised using VMware connected to an IBM FlashSystem. There are a total of 320 servers, details on Server Types and Operating System are below:
Server Type / Server Count
Virtual Servers (VMWare) – 316
Physical Servers – 4
Total – 320
Operating Systems / Server Count
Windows - 294
Linux - 26
Total – 320
Currently there are 110TB of data in use, a breakdown of the data types is below:
Data Type / TB
File – 27
Oracle – 2
SQL – 14
VDI – 4
VM – 63
Total - 110
Connectivity to the network is possible by 25Gb fibre and to the storage fabric network by 32Gb fibre.
Solution Requirements
The backup solution should incorporate the 3-2-1 backup rule, a copy of backup data in each datacentre and an offsite copy in the cloud.
The below table gives details around Data Size, Growth, Change Rates and Recovery Points and Retention Periods that we require:
Data Size - 110TB
Yearly Growth Rate - 5%
Daily Change Rate - 7TB
Recovery Points - Daily 31d, Weekly 7w, Monthly 12m, Yearly 1y
Retention Period - 31d Local, 1yr Cloud*
*Depending on cost increased retention maybe an option
The possibility of a managed service would be of interest and would like to investigate this as an option.
Mailbox data is currently being moved to Office 365 with further data expected to move in the future, we would like to explore the options for backing up O365.
The solution must be able to capable of performing immutable backups.
Please email your response with an overview of your solution/service to Rachel Sanders, Category Manager by 12noon on Tuesday 8th March 2022 to rachel.sanders@wrexham.gov.uk. Please only provide information in response to the above. Please include the reference: PROC21-188 in the subject heading of your e-mail response. Please note that we may wish to speak to you regarding your response w/c 21st March 2022.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL23
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Please see Object above.
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
01/06/2022
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
(WA Ref:119022)
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
23/02/2022