Network upgrade

Tender description

United Utilities (UU) is embarking on a key strategic initiative to simplify and transform its data centre and campus LANs at initially four primary locations, with the potential to transform firewalls, load balancers and LANs/Wi-Fi, services at non-campus locations at other sites during UU’s next capital funding cycle post 2020. The transformed networks shall re-architect data centre and campus LAN environment to an optimised, scalable and future proof infrastructure, taking advantage of best in class solutions to support UU needs of the private cloud environment. The redesign will seek to rationalise the volume of physical ports and optimise existing network segregation, whilst enabling traffic segmentation for support of virtual workloads and enhance network access control capabilities. Call Off Contract no 1 — Campus LAN Design, Build and Transform Call Off Contract no 2 — Data Centre LAN Design, Build and Transform Call Off Contract no 3 — Maintenance Service Requirements and services covering: — Campus access layer LAN’s and Wi-Fi, — Data Centre LAN’s/virtualisation, — Data Centre and Campus cabling specifications, — Wired LAN port and Wi-Fi user network access control, — IP address management, — Network to application security functionality/network access control, — Centrally controlled and virtual/software defined network overlay, — Supplementary network management toolset for the transformed DC and Campus network technology, to interface and operate with the Company’s overarching Network Management Platform, — Technical Design Services. Call Off Contract no 1 — Campus LAN Design, Build and Transform Call Off Contract no 2 — Data Centre LAN Design, Build and Transform Call Off Contract no 3 — Managed Service. Requirements and services covering: — Campus access layer LAN’s and Wi-Fi, — Data Centre LAN’s/virtualisation/load balancers, — Data Centre and Campus cabling specifications, — Firewalls, Load Balancers and network device management, — Wired LAN port and Wi-Fi user network access control, — IP address management, — Network to application security functionality/network access control, — Centrally controlled and virtual/software defined network overlay, — Managed service offering supporting network operations (Campus LANs/Wi-Fi, Data Centre LANs, all other network locations) ITIL services, network tooling, service level management and associated third party management and support, — Technical Design Services.