HDD-DCO-23-53 CISCO Network Switches

Tender description

Hywel Dda Health Board ("HDUHB") has awarded a contract for the provision of Cisco network switches and associated hardware within the Health Board. This contract will facilitate the continued operation of Health Board data centres as these switches are pivotal to running all clinical and administrative systems within HDUHB. The network switches are to be installed in the data centres at Glangwili General Hospital (GGH) and Withybush General Hospital (WGH) as current network switches are due to become end of life in the next 6 to 10 months. The solution enables the digital team to take advantage of current switch technology development to incorporate additional functionality to support cyber security best practice by dividing the data centre network into smaller protection zones to limit the Health Boards exposure to cyber-attacks. The requirement needs to be in placed by promptly to avoid any potential disastrous consequences should any faults arise on old equipment which will be unsupported within the next 10 months. Additionally, the Health Board are looking to include the provision of Cisco C9200L switches which will be utilised across HDUHB to replace current switches which are already end of life and can no longer accept security updates or have supported provided should a fault occur, exposing the Health Board to significant risk with the systems run through these switches. This hardware facilitates the simplification of the complex networks, optimized information technology and reduced operational costs by leveraging intelligence and automation to allow the connection of edge devices to the site local area network. The Health Trust Europe ("HTE") ICT Solutions Three (3) framework agreement (ComIT3 - HTE-011006) is compliant with UK/EU procurement legislation and provides a compliant route to source entire information communication technology and digitisation requirements across the complete IT vendor and value-added reseller landscape ranging from hardware, software, cybersecurity and computer science solutions. This framework includes several potential providers who have achieved inclusion on the framework following a qualification process and procurement approached the a suppliers with links to the Welsh economy.