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BFI

Certified Data Tape Stock - Invitation to Auction (December 2018) - AWARD

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 30000000 30200000 30230000 32000000 32500000 32580000
Value£34,998
Awarded10 Dec 2018
Published18 Dec 2018
RegionUK-wide

£34,998 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£35ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits below the typical range for Office & Computing Equipment contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The BFI has a requirement for certified data tape stock.

The BFI's new Digital Preservation Infrastructure has a dual data library system, which incorporates separate, automated LTO6 and IBM TS1150 data tape robots.

Therefore, both LTO6 and IBM sets of stock are required to provide secure and resilient long term data preservation.

Certified stock is necessary to fulfil the performance and warrantee criteria essential to the very stringent requirements of the BFI DPI system.

The total requirement is as follows: 47 x LTO-6 2.5TB Spectralogic certified with pre-applied barcode labels and Terapack (pack of 10) 13 x 3592 JD Media Pack Spectralogic certified (TS1150 Technology) with pre-applied barcode labels and Terapack (pack of 9) The delivery schedule for the supply of the above is between December 2018 and January 2019

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Therefore, both LTO6 and IBM sets

Therefore, both LTO6 and IBM sets of stock are required to provide secure and resilient long term data preservation.

02

The delivery schedule for the supply

The delivery schedule for the supply of the above is between December 2018 and January 2019.

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Source & provenance
OCID
03255ca1-9f9f-4f36-af24-76902e9d4ab9
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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2018/192 - AWARD
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