Lake District National Park Tender

Introduction And Background To The Project The Authority Currently Operates A Vmware Environment At Its Kendal Hq, We Wish To Replace This Environment And Migrate The Servers To A Hosted Data Centre Tender Objective The Objective Is For All Authority Servers To Be Hosted Off-premise And Fully Managed By The Platform Provider. See Annex 1 For A List Of Servers To Be Hosted Your Solution Options May Take The Form Of Fixed Hosts/storage Or A Per Cpu/memory/storage Solution Full Management Is To Include • Patching And Updating Of Servers Including Responses To Vulnerability Scans • Upgrades To Ensure Servers Remain On Supported Operating Systems (may Require Working With Third Party Providers) • Full Backups Including Application Data (exchange/sql/active Directory) O Recovery Of Application Items O Full System Recovery O Instant Recovery Of Systems Is Not Expected To Be Affordable But Recovery Within 24 – 48 Hours Is Required Please Include A Breakdown Of Pricing For Recovery Times • Licencing For All Systems As Required • Review Of Server Inventory And Recommendations For Consolidation/reduction Where Possible Suppliers Will Be Expected To Submit A Fixed Fee Proposal And Have The Capacity To Deliver The Contract Preferably By 31 March 2023. Current Environment The Authority Currently Hosts The Server Inventory On A Vmware Comprising Two Hosts And A San. The Capacity Of The Environment Is As Follows: 2 Ibm Hosts Each With Intel(r) Xeon(r) Silver 4110 Cpu @ 2.10ghz (32 Logical Processors) And 512gb Ram Ibm San With 40tb Usable Storage – There Are Currently No Ssds In This San The Authority Is Downsizing The Vm Inventory And A List Of Servers Remaining To Be Hosted Is Available In Annex 1 It Is Anticipated That Any Solution Will Equal Or Exceed The Performance Of The Current Infrastructure And That This Eliminates The Need To Run Any Metrics On The Existing System.