A15/3445/HMC16/14 - RACKMOUNT AND BLADE SERVERS

The Irish Defence Forces invites tenders for the supply and maintenance support of Server Hardware with ancillaries to include 19” Rack Mountable 1U, 2U and blade type server hardware. These mission critical servers are required to provide services running mainly on Windows Server based operating systems including Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The servers will be used in outposts, overseas, data centres and server rooms across the Defence Forces organisation.

The aim of the tender competition is to put in place a draw down framework contract, which will include a set of three generic base models of server for deployment throughout the Defence Forces. Server platforms must include:
Entry-level – for outposts/overseas, low level application servers.
Mid-level for virtualisation – Regional HQs, data centres
High specification level for virtualisation – For high density virtualisation in data centre environment.

The completed tender should be returned in a sealed envelope marked

Tender For the SUPPLY Of RACKMOUNT AND BLADE SERVERS FOR DEFENCE FORCES IRELAND.

1 hardcopy and 1 soft copy in ‘.pdf or ‘.doc’ format (CD ROM) to:

Comdt. O. Dwyer
Budget Planning Officer
Directorate of Communications and Information Services (DCIS)
McKee Barracks
Blackhorse Ave
Dublin 7

Closing Date: Noon 06 Aug 2014