IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Tender description

‘Contract award’ to an organisation who will work with LYHA’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. Contract award for the following requirements — produce a detailed design and transition plan for moving it all over to Microsoft Azure, ensuring it interoperates with LYHA’s existing Microsoft 365 tenancy; — to work with LYHA’s IT Team to build the Azure tenancies and migrating the existing servers, applications, databases and storage over to Azure IaaS and PaaS in line with Microsoft Best Practice Design Standards. Note: The existing servers are all virtualised and in VMDK format, we envisage some of these will be moved over as is and then transformed to take greater advantage of Azure’s features; — ensuring the existing implementation of Azure AD meets the needs of LYHA and is in line with Best Practice Design Standards; — working with LYHA to design and implement appropriate and performant solutions for desktop and application delivery exploiting the use of Microsoft Virtual Desktops as required; — moving all shared file server data to azure files; — ensure the whole environment is resiliently provisioned and backed up on Azure, making best use of Microsoft Site Recovery Manager, Traffic Manager and Azure Backup. Note: Backup needs to extend to Microsoft 365; — migrating all user’s data over from file server drives to Microsoft One Drive. — to provide 3rd line support to LYHA’s IT Team for up to 3 years; — training the IT Team on how to manage Azure and provision new services; — to fully document the delivered solution.