Contract notice

Information

Published

Date of dispatch of this notice: 11/11/2022

Expire date: 15/12/2022

External Reference: 2022-251318

TED Reference: 2022/S 221-636614

Contract notice

[NoticeContract]

[Directive201424]

[Section1]: [Ca]

I.1)

[NameAddressContact]

Donegal County Council
N/A
County House
Co Donegal
Lifford
IE
[Contactpoint]: Sean Dunnion
[AddressPhone]: +353 749153900
[AddressEmail]: sdunnion@donegalcoco.ie
[Nutscode]:  IE041 -  Border
[Internets]:
I.2)

[JointProcurement]

[JointProcurementCentral]
I.3)

[InfoTendering]

[AddressObtainDocs]:  
http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=228560&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE
[AddressFurtherinfo]
[AsContactsAbove]:  
[AddressSendTendersRequest]
[AddressSendTendersRequest]
[AddressToAbove]
I.4)

[CaType]

[MaintypeLocalauth]
I.5)

[Mainactivity]

[MainactivGeneral]

[Section2]: [Object]

II.1)

[QuantityScopeContract]

II.1.1)

[TitleContract]

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Solution & Associated Equipment and Services for Donegal County Council
II.1.2)

[CpvMain]

51610000  - 
II.1.3)

[TypeContract]

[Services]
II.1.4)

[DescrShort]

Donegal County Council is seeking the supply and installation of Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution at our headquarters in Lifford, County Donegal. The solution must include all relevant hardware and software to enable an active/active deployment encompassing High Availability and Disaster Recovery and meeting the solution requirements detailed hereunder. We are seeking a stretched cluster design and that each side of the cluster should be capable of running 100% of the workload.
II.1.5)

[ValueMagnitudeEstimatedTotal]

[ValueExclVat]: 675000.00  EUR
II.1.6)

[LotsInfo]

[DivisionLots]: [No]
II.2)

[Description]

II.2.2)

[CpvAdditional]

30200000  - 
30211300  - 
48800000  - 
48820000  - 
48821000  - 
72120000  - 
72222300  - 
72910000  - 
II.2.3)

[PlacePerformance]

[Nutscode]:  IE041 -  Border
II.2.4)

[DescrProcurement]

Donegal County Council is seeking the supply and installation of Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution at our headquarters in Lifford, County Donegal. The solution must include all relevant hardware and software to enable an active/active deployment encompassing High Availability and Disaster Recovery and meeting the solution requirements detailed hereunder. We are seeking a stretched cluster design and that each side of the cluster should be capable of running 100% of the workload.
The primary datacentre is located on the second floor of the County House building. The secondary datacentre is located 260m down the street on the ground floor of the ‘Three Rivers Centre’ building complete with independent power and independent networking. The buildings are connected via switch stacks at both ends comprising of 4 x Cisco Catalyst 9200L 10G switches. These are 40Gbps stacks with a 20GB fibre trunk connection between the County House and the Three Rivers Centre. Both datacentres are connected to Government Networks via separate 1GB links for added resiliency.
The Contracting Authority requires an efficient and cost-effective fully integrated on-premise and Cloud based solution that will deliver compute & storage resources, including replication, backup and disaster recovery for all virtual machines. The solution must be application aware and file level backup enabled for all business applications and also be capable of backing up a small number of physical servers.
Existing Donegal County Council VMware software licensing must be re-used within the solution proposed. Any additional licensing uplift / upgrade costs, required to enable the relevant solution features / functionality, must be included and detailed within the proposal.
Support and maintenance for the complete solution for a period of 5 x years must be included, including backup retention which meets the SLA required and detailed in Section 1.4.
II.2.5)

[AwardCriteria]

[AwardCriteriaDescriptive]
II.2.6)

[ValueMagnitudeEstimated]

[ValueExclVat]: 675000.00  EUR
II.2.7)

[DurationContractFrameworkDps]

[DurationMonths]: 60
[RenewalsSubject]: [Yes]
[RenewalsDescr]:  
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the term for a period or periods of up to two (2) years with a maximum of two (2) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
II.2.10)

[VariantsInfo]

[VariantsAccepted]: [No]
II.2.11)

[OptionsInfo]

[Options]: [Yes]
[OptionsDescr]:
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the term for a period or periods of up to two (2) years with a maximum of two (2) such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
II.2.13)

[EuProgrInfo]

[EuProgrRelated]: [No]

[Section3]: [InfoLegal]

III.1)

[ConditionsParticip]

III.1.1)

[SituationPersonalIncl]

[InfoEvaluatingRequir]:  As stated in the procurement documents.
III.1.2)

[EconomicFinancialStanding]

[CriteriaSelectionDocs]
III.1.3)

[TechnicalCapacity]

[CriteriaSelectionDocs]
III.2)

[ConditionsContract]

III.2.3)

[StaffResponsible]

[StaffResponsibleIndicate]

[Section4]: [Procedure]

IV.1)

[Description]

IV.1.1)

[TypeProcedure]

[ProctypeOpen]
IV.1.8)

[GpaInfo]

[GpaCovered] : [Yes]
IV.2)

[InfoAdmin]

IV.2.2)

[LimitReceiptTendersReqPart]

[Date]:  15/12/2022
[Time]:  12:00
IV.2.4)

[LanguagesAllowed]

[Language_EN]
IV.2.6)

[MinTimeMaintain]

[DurationMonths] : 6  ([FromStatedDate])
IV.2.7)

[OpeningConditions]

[Date]:  15/12/2022
[Time]:  12:00

[Section6]: [InfoComplement]

VI.1)

[RecurrenceInfo]

[RecurrentProcurement]:  [No]
VI.4)

[AppealsProcedure]

VI.4.1)

[AppealsBody]

High Court of Ireland
Four Courts, Inns Quay
Dublin 7
IE

VI.4.2)

[MediationBody]

High Court of Ireland
Four Courts, Inns Quay
Dublin 7
IE

VI.4.4)

[AppealsInfo]

High Court of Ireland
Four Courts, Inns Quay
Dublin 7
IE