UKRI DDaT19266 IUK Private Cloud Hosting and Support Services

Tender description

UK Shared Business Services Ltd acting on behalf of the contracting authority United Kingdom Research and Innovation have put in place a contract for cloud hosting and support services for the following UKRI platforms: 1)_Connect; 2) Grants; 3) KTP. As part of the ongoing hosting and maintenance service provision, a series of service enhancements and upgrades have been agreed, which will be delivered over the term of the forthcoming contract. These upgrades and enhancements are: 1) Implementation of new load balancer on Connect and Grants; 2) Implementation of new monitoring and network control systems; 3) Upgrade of all core firewall firmware to the latest versions (currently on latest branch); 4) Switch to new virtualisation and storage platform; 5) Deployment of new DNS infrastructure to remove reliable on static host files; 6) Upgrade of all sub-systems to Debian 9 or 10; 7) Upgrade of Apache Solr and MySQL to latest versions; 8) Rewrite of all firewall rules to improve security and reduce load on new firewall appliances; 9) Implementation of automatic penetration testing; 10) Rebuild of the Atlassian DevTools stack within AWS - latest version (currently on latest in branch) and improved scaling/resilience; 11) Liferay (6.2) Upgrade completion; 12) OpenAM Upgrade completion. This contract has been awarded in alignment with the Crown Commercial Services RM1557.11 G Cloud 11 framework