CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE - UTILITIES

Section I: Contracting Entity

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Main activity or activities of the contracting entity

	Production, transport and distribution of gas and heat
	Electricity
	Exploration and extraction of gas and oil
	Exploration and extraction of coal and other solid fuels
	Water
	Postal services
	Railway services
	Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus or bus services
	Port-related activities
	Airport-related activities

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting entity

Secure Area Network Solution.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Liverpool.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Peel Ports require a replacement SAN solution to address current challenges with storage capacity, backup windows and unstructured data growth. Growth of Peel Ports structured and unstructured data is predicted to increase and therefore a new SAN solution is required to refresh the current platform which is now approaching capacity and predicted lifespan.

The new solution will include but not limited to

Five-year plus life span with modular scalability

Business continuance features such as local and remote replication

Granular reporting and monitoring, specifically with respect to performance and capacity analysis

Block and file access

Thin provisioning and general space efficiencies

On-going support and maintenance for duration of the contract

Replacement SAN fabric using 8GB FC or FC over Ethernet

Improved Backup and archiving options to reduce tape backup window

Initially 80TB with capability to blend disk types inc SSD

Proposed solutions will also include technical implementation services to integrate with the existing data centre environment as well as the tools to seamlessly migrate all existing data from current live volumes to the new platform, with little or no disruption to Peel Ports business operations.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.I.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s) awarded

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s) awarded

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting entity

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

V.1)

Award and Contract Value

Contract No:

 Title: 

Lot No:

V.1.1)

Date of contract award

V.1.2)

Numbers of offers received

V.1.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.1.4)

Information on value of contract

V.1.5)

The contract likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

V.1.6)

Price paid for bargain purchases

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice