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WATER SERVICES REGULATION AUTHORITY

Interim Microsoft Specialist

Business ServicesCPV 79620000
Value£43k
Awarded11 Nov 2016
Published20 Mar 2017
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£43ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Business Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Reporting to the Programme Manager.

A Microsoft Office 365/Azure consultant who has designed and implemented Office 365 and carried out the migrations/transitions shall: 1.

Review our Office 365 configuration and implement latest security advice from HMG.

2.

Review identity management and the options around allowing secure third party access to our on premise and cloud systems.

3.

Review the options for moving our on premises servers to the cloud.

4.

Review options for unified comms and provide cloud based solutions.

5.

Have the ability to write technical handover and support documentations.

Skills: • Expert knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, ADFS, Azure, SSO and cloud based identity management. • Advanced knowledge of Windows network protocols including DNS, DHCP, WINS, LDAP and Kerberos. • Advanced knowledge of designing and migrating to Office 365 including Exchange, Skype, OneDrive, SharePoint and Yammer. • Advanced knowledge of security technologies and strategies, including the use of web and email content filtering, public key infrastructure, drive encryption, patch management and AV best practices. • Knowledge of MDM technologies including Microsoft Intune, and how these can be used. • Knowledge of Unified Communications design patterns including Skype for Business and cloud hosted VoIP/PBX. • Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and other cloud computing infrastructure. • Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Solarwinds, Nagios and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

A Microsoft Office 365/Azure consultant who has

A Microsoft Office 365/Azure consultant who has designed and implemented Office 365 and carried out the migrations/transitions shall:.

02

Review our Office 365 configuration and implement

Review our Office 365 configuration and implement latest security advice from HMG.

03

Review options for unified comms and provide

Review options for unified comms and provide cloud based solutions.

04

Have the ability to write technical handover

Have the ability to write technical handover and support documentations.

05

• Advanced knowledge of designing and migrating

• Advanced knowledge of designing and migrating to Office 365 including Exchange, Skype, OneDrive, SharePoint and Yammer.

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
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