WAN Strategy Pre-Market Engagement

Main contract details

Opportunity Id

DN643139

Title

Categories

270000 - Information Communication Technology

Description

Contract Number:  DN643139
Contract Name:     WAN Strategy Pre-Market Engagement
 
 
Liverpool City Council are hosting a pre-market engagement event to meet with relevant suppliers to help shape the future Wide-Area-Network strategy of the Council for the next five years or more.
 
A brief outline of requirements is as follows:
 
Internet and DDoS
 
<ul style="margin-top: 0" type="disc">
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Internet provision consisting of a 10 Gb/s bearer to each data centre, delivered from different PoP’s (Points of Presence).</li>
<ul style="margin-top: 0" type="circle">
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Note: Both DC’s are located in Liverpool Town Centre</li>
</ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Two Class C IPV4 public IP address subnets are required to enable migration from incumbent supplier.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Provision of a cloud based DDoS mitigation service that will automatically detect and mitigate attacks.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The DDoS mitigation provider should include a portal for the management of bandwidth utilization and DDoS attack reporting.</li>
</ul>
 
Security Managed Services
 
<ul style="margin-top: 0" type="disc">
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">A fully managed service, 24/7/365 is required, including remote monitoring and vendor maintenance support of the following.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Fortinet Fortigate 501e firewalls.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Fortinet Fortigate IPS.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Checkpoint 7000 firewalls.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Cisco Firepower FPR 1120 firewalls.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The supplier must be a ‘gold’ partner or equivalent with the above OEM’s.</li>
</ul>
 
Data Circuits
 
<ul style="margin-top: 0" type="disc">
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Replacement of 79 corporate branch site circuits to a minimum bearer bandwidth of 100Mb/s.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Replacement of 7 Managed Internet access circuits (MIA’s) ranging from 50Mb/s – 1Gb/s.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Replacement of 3 10Gb/s Ethernet point to point extension circuits.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">Provision of two resilient, high availability (HA) aggregate 1 Gb/s circuits per data centre location, diversely routed and delivered from different Points of Presence (PoPs).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The ability to provide an SD-WAN trial during the term of the contact.</li>
</ul>
 
Network Maintenance
 
<ul style="margin-top: 0" type="disc">
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The Supplier is to provide hardware and operating system maintenance for all Cisco LAN equipment on the Liverpool City Council estate including the Arena and Convention Centre group.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The supplier must be able to support Cisco switching up to Nexus 9300’s, WIFI, IP Telephony, Contact Centre and ASA firewalls.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The Supplier must be able to provide Cisco Smartnet total care 24x7x4 support.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal">The Supplier must be a Cisco Gold Partner.</li>
</ul>
 
Further information and a questionnaire may be issued prior to the event.
 
The event will be held in Cunard Building, Water Street, Liverpool, L3 1DS on the morning of 6 December 2022.
 
To register for the event, please complete the form below and return it via the ProContract portal.
 
Registration request deadline: Thursday 1 December 2022.
 
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Once you have registered you will need to go to the “my opportunities” section on the home page of ProContract and follow the instructions as a supplier to enable you to return your registration.

Region(s) of supply

Merseyside

Estimated value

N/A

Keywords

Telecommunications, WAN, Internet and DDoS, Security Managed Service, Data Circuits, Network Maintenance

Key dates

Estimated contract dates

Start date

06/12/2022

End date

06/12/2022

Expression of interest window

From 15/11/2022 16:00 to 01/12/2022 23:30

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Contact details

Buyer

Liverpool City Council

Contact

Steve Haywood

steve.haywood@liverpool.gov.uk

Telephone

0151 351 0543

Address

5th Floor, Cunard Building
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 1DS
United Kingdom

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