Computer equipment and supplies

Tender description

Southern Water will contract with a single service provider for the provision of colocation infrastructure, including: — solution design, — build, — testing and — support to operation. This notice relates to the provision of IT infrastructure (hardware) and associated services (build). This will form part of the ongoing collocation facilities project at Southern Water, but is limited to the hardware and associated services only, not to include provision of collocated facilities or migration of current Southern Water applications. For clarity, Southern Water will contract with a single Service Provider for the provision of colocation infrastructure, including: — solution design, — build, — testing and — support to operation. The envisaged term of the collocation infrastructure (hardware) contract is to run for an initial term of 5 years, with an option to extend by a further period, or periods, up to 5 years (10 years total). Any extension taken will be associated only to the warranty and third level support of both the software and hardware. All information can be obtained by reviewing the opportunity listing, and subsequent PQQ, on the Southern Water e-sourcing portal, bravo. Prospective tenderers should ensure that they have registered to the Southern Water portal, and register interest against Prj_976. It is envisaged that the successful tenderer will start delivery during March 2019.