Framework Agreement for Datacentre Technologies Supply & Support and Hardware Maintenance

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FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT FOR Datacentre Technologies Supply & Support and Hardware Maintenance Lot 1: Datacentre Technologies Supply & Support Denbighshire and Flintshire County Councils wish to establish a Framework Agreement for the procurement and support of new and existing Datacentre IT Systems utilised by Denbighshire and Flintshire County Councils. The Authorities IT Departments all provide business systems separately to their own individual organisation; however, each authority deploys similar IT systems that support these applications based on IBM, Dell, and Lenovo Technologies. This framework is to support each authority to procure hardware, software, and hardware maintenance to support both the existing infrastructure and new and emerging technologies and strategies that each may develop. The Framework aims to achieve value for money together with partnership working arrangements with a small number of key suppliers to develop data centre-based hardware and software systems and hardware maintenance. Suppliers on the Framework will be key to helping each authority achieve its strategic goals and plans in terms of IT Technologies. Lot 2: Datacentre Technologies Hardware Maintenance Denbighshire and Flintshire County Council's wish to establish a Framework Agreement for the Hardware Maintenance of existing Datacentre IT Systems utilised by Denbighshire and Flintshire County Councils. The Authorities IT Divisions all provide business systems separately to their own individual organisation; however, each authority deploys similar IT systems that support these applications based on IBM, Dell and Lenovo Technologies. This framework is to support each authority with hardware maintenance to support both the existing infrastructure. The Framework aims to achieve value for money together with partnership working arrangements with a key supplier to develop datacentre hardware maintenance