Information systems

Tender description

On the 5.5.2017, Greater Manchester Combined Authority as the Contracting Authority for Greater Manchester Police, published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in the Official Journal of the European Union to provide advance notice to the open market of the Data Centre tender opportunity. As per the PIN notice Greater Manchester Police is seeking for an appropriate supplier to transition and migrate its existing Data Centre services to a new virtualised infrastructure under a managed service contract. GMP is committed is seeking to let a single contract to a single supplier to provide a managed service covering the following requirements: (a) design, delivery and management of transitions of all GMP services from the old data centre service to the new service (moving all in-scope services to a virtual infrastructure); (b) design, provision, management and support, up to and including the OS layer, of infrastructure including: — virtual machines, and — physical machines. Greater Manchester Combined Authority as the Contracting Authority for Greater Manchester Police, has awarded a contract to Novosco Ltd.