Firewall Infrastructure and Related Hardware & Services

Tender description

The University of Nottingham wishes to replace its existing primary firewall infrastructure platform (UK) to meet the growing needs of the University’s core business functions for the next 3 years. The University is also looking to create a strategic relationship with the successful tenderer for the initial replacement but also through the formation of a framework agreement for ongoing requirements UK and International) for a period up-to four years. For the procurement to be considered successful it must:- - Significantly improve the performance and resilience of our firewall infrastructure - Provide a range of threat protection capabilities to protect our security / risk position - Provide the ability to process traffic to the full potential of our network links without degrading performance or compromising the users experience - Provide capacity to handle exceptions such as external attacks - Migrate seamlessly from the current firewalls to the new infrastructure - Provide scalability in terms of additional capacity / performance - Minimise the environmental impact of the new installation - Provide alerting, reporting, capacity and performance management through existing Solarwinds functionality and / or new management interfaces - Successfully demonstrate adherence to our requirements through a rigorous demonstration / testing process - Provide a 3 year warranty on all provided hardware in the solution - Maintain a 4 year service agreement to provide future firewall infrastructure It is proposed that this Framework Agreement will operate initially for two years effective from 20th February 2016; however, the framework may be extended on an annual basis dependent upon performance up to a maximum of four years.