Network Technical Assessment
£30,353 — awarded.
This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.
This sits below the typical range for IT Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.
DVLA has a highly complex networks architecture which has grown organically over 10 years or more to become difficult and inflated to support and manage.
DVLA's core and edge switching solution has become hugely complicated, with over 25 Nortel/Avaya 8600 series chassis switches making up the 'core' network.
This core is distributed over three sites and many data centres, several of which are in sub-optimal locations.
A Technical Initiative was agreed to deliver an entirely new networking architecture for DVLA, based on Juniper Networks technology.
The technology selection was based on technical, engagement and service considerations.
The requirement was to replace all legacy core, datacentre and user access switching with an integrated, next-generation networking platform.
To date DVLA has successfully deployed all Pre-Production services (and a small number of production) onto the new Juniper platform, however there have been a number of major environment issues to overcome which has resulted in low confidence in the technology.
As a result of ongoing issues the DVLA are initiating a Full Technology assessment to understand what alternative solutions may be available.
What the notice asks for
DVLA has a highly complex networks architecture
DVLA has a highly complex networks architecture which has grown organically over 10 years or more to become difficult and inflated to support and manage.
A Technical Initiative was agreed to deliver
A Technical Initiative was agreed to deliver an entirely new networking architecture for DVLA, based on Juniper Networks technology.
The requirement was to replace all legacy
The requirement was to replace all legacy core, datacentre and user access switching with an integrated, next-generation networking platform.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
Make the case to bid
Reveal who to approach at D V L A, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.
Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.
- OCID
- 16c0bf41-450c-4110-85fa-cc63c95708f8
- Stage
- contract · Contract
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Buyer ref
- PS/18/135
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.
Who wins this kind of work
The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.
Top suppliers & buyers in IT Services
D V L A’s tender network