Selection of Infrastructure and Managed Service partner

Tender description

THIS IS NOT A TENDER COMPETITION NO TENDER DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS STAGE. Following a strategic review of ICT requirements for the period 2021 to 2026, Met Éireann intend to seek a partner who will help Met Éireann on their journey to create a more flexible, responsive, geo resilient ICT Infrastructure. As part of this journey Met Éireann, along with their chosen partner, will: • Design, procure, configure, integrate, test and deploy new ICT infrastructure in 2 Government Data Centres. This will include replacing the existing ICT infrastructure which will largely be end of life by Q4 2022. • Migrate all data, applications, and physical and virtual machines from the current Met Éireann ICT infrastructure to the new infrastructure. • Build the ICT network to support all migration to new infrastructure. • Provide a phased Managed Service for both infrastructure and Desk Side support services with on-site level 2 support and escalation to level 3. • The support will include Business Continuity and DR planning, backup service, routine administration and the housekeeping tasks to monitor and maintain the new infrastructure including putting the geo-resilience in place and ongoing management of services. • The entire service will be in keeping with Government ICT Strategy. • Over the lifetime of the contract Met Éireann will be looking to move to a more responsive method of delivering application upgrades and support so the vendor will be required to be familiar with a transition to Agile and DevOps methodologies. Met Éireann requires that it’s systems are available on a 24*7*365 basis For more information, please see attached document.