Belgium - Computer equipment and supplies

Description

This contract covers supplies and services.This contract includes the following lots.1) x.862 servers3) specialized data storage3) x.86 servers, for the expansion of the existing fleet4) data center network support5) third-party transceivers
Supply, installation and maintenance of x.86-based servers. This includes- a wide range of servers, with 1 to 8 processors and more- this also includes Direct Attached Storage and HyperConverged Infrastructure- especially for virtualization and databases- primarily rack mount, as well as some stand-alone server models- the management environment is fully customized to the range of servers offered; it is preferred that it offers the same level of support for customers' existing hardware- cloud-based management environments are allowed, but customer hosting must also be provided.- other related services and supplies. Supply, installation, maintenance and repair of data storage systems. This includes- this includes both SAN, NAS and object storage- both Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI and IP networks- includes storage switching- software defined storage- including virtualization, databases, backups and multimedia storage- the management environment is fully tailored to the proposed range of data storage systems; preferably offers the same level of support for customers' existing hardware- cloud-based management environments are allowed, but customer hosting must also be provided, with the same features.- Other related services and supplies - object storage must be able to interoperate with object storage in the public cloud. Supply, installation and maintenance of servers based on x.86 processors, including the corresponding SAN systems and intended for the extension of existing equipment and installations (which limits the choice of manufacturers eligible to HPE). Provision of data center networking and security services - Hardware and systems such as Cisco Nexus & Catalyst, F5, Citrix and/or Palo Alto- other related services and supplies Provision, maintenance and repair of (Q)SFP(+) transceivers, possibly from third party suppliers - the supplier guarantees compatibility with established brand name servers and switches (Cisco, HPE, Avaya, Lenovo, Brocade, Dell/EMC2, etc.) and provides support if required - other related services and supplies

Opportunity closing date

14 March 2022

Value of contract

more than £50m