IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Tender description

This specification of requirements seeks to identify an organisation who can work with CCHA’s internal IT Team to design, plan and transition all the on-premise applications over to azure ensuring microsoft’s best practice designs are applied. The design of the replacement solution must fully maximise the value of cloud services by redesigning the current implementations to fully exploit the value of Microsoft’s IaaS, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and SaaS offerings. CCHA understands that some software providers can offer far more competitive pricing on microsoft azure services and microsoft 365 to housing providers. This lot is therefore focussed on the provision of the required licenses to provide the services required which will be identified as part of lot 2. 1.2.4 This lot is focussed on providing consultancy services to CCHA to: — assess CCHA’s current ICT Infrastructure and the produce a detailed design and transition plan for moving it all over to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. — to work with CCHA’s IT Team to build the Azure and Microsoft 365 tenancies and migrating the existing servers, applications, databases and storage over to Azure IaaS, PaaS and Microsoft 365 SaaS in line with microsoft best practice design standards. — migration of the on-premise AD to azure AD, ensuring it has been upgraded to the latest best practice design standards, — ensuring the devices and all the files are setup up, managed by InTune, and data properly secured, — migrating all users from on premise exchange to microsoft 365 Email, — migrating all user’s data over from file server drives to microsoft one drive, — migrating all shared data over to either microsoft one drive or sharepoint, — to provide 3rd line support to CCHA’s IT team for up to 3 years, — training the IT team on how to manage azure and microsoft 365, — to fully document the delivered solution.