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UKRI DDaT19266 IUK Private Cloud Hosting and Support Services

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value: £995,815Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time): Thu 31 Oct 2019A deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Thu 31 Oct 2019, which is not an open deadline.
Published: 2 Dec 2019
Region: Any region

02/ The brief

What the notice says

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UK Shared Business Services Ltd acting on behalf of the contracting authority United Kingdom Research and Innovation have put in place a contract for cloud hosting and support services for the following UKRI platforms:

1)_Connect;

2) Grants;

3) KTP.

As part of the ongoing hosting and maintenance service provision, a series of service enhancements and upgrades have been agreed, which will be delivered over the term of the forthcoming contract. These upgrades and enhancements are:

1) Implementation of new load balancer on Connect and Grants;

2) Implementation of new monitoring and network control systems;

3) Upgrade of all core firewall firmware to the latest versions (currently on latest branch);

4) Switch to new virtualisation and storage platform;

5) Deployment of new DNS infrastructure to remove reliable on static host files;

6) Upgrade of all sub-systems to Debian 9 or 10;

7) Upgrade of Apache Solr and MySQL to latest versions;

8) Rewrite of all firewall rules to improve security and reduce load on new firewall appliances;

9) Implementation of automatic penetration testing;

10) Rebuild of the Atlassian DevTools stack within AWS - latest version (currently on latest in branch) and improved scaling/resilience;

11) Liferay (6.2) Upgrade completion;

12) OpenAM Upgrade completion.

This contract has been awarded in alignment with the Crown Commercial Services RM1557.11 G Cloud 11 framework

03/ Classification

CPV codes

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48000000 72000000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

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2 Dec 2019
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Contract notice published 2 December 2019.
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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

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06/ Questions

About this notice

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £995,815.

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