Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-10-27
Buyer: Met Eireann
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 30000000 | 30200000 | 30210000 | 64227000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 7500000 EUR

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Following a strategic review of ICT requirements for the period 2021 to 2026, Met Éireann, a line division of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, intend to seek a partner who will help Met Éireann on their journey to create a more flexible, responsive, geo resilient ICT Infrastructure.
Following a strategic review of ICT requirements for the period 2021 to 2026, Met Éireann, a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, intend to seek a partner who will help Met Éireann on their journey to create a more flexible, responsive, geo resilient ICT Infrastructure. As part of this journey Met Éireann, along with their chosen partner, will:
• Design, procure, configure, integrate, test and deploy new ICT infrastructure in two Government Data Centres. This will include replacing the existing ICT infrastructure which will largely be end of life by Q4 2022.
• Migrate all data, applications, and physical and virtual machines from the current Met Éireann ICT infrastructure to the new infrastructure.
• Provide a phased managed service for both infrastructure and desk side support services with on-site level 2 support and escalation to level 3.
• The support will include Business Continuity and DR planning, backup service, routine administration and the housekeeping tasks to monitor and maintain the new infrastructure including putting the geo-resilience in place and ongoing management of services.
• Over the lifetime of the contract Met Éireann will be looking to move to a more responsive method of delivering application upgrades and support so the vendor will be required to be familiar with a transition to Agile and DevOps methodologies.
Following a strategic review of ICT requirements for the period 2021 to 2026, Met Éireann intend to seek a partner who will help Met Éireann on their journey to create a more flexible, responsive, geo resilient ICT Infrastructure. As part of this journey Met Éireann, along with their chosen partner, will:
• Design, procure, configure, integrate, test and deploy new ICT infrastructure in two Government Data Centres. This will include replacing the existing ICT infrastructure which will largely be end of life by Q4 2022.
• Migrate all data, applications, and physical and virtual machines from the current Met Éireann ICT infrastructure to the new infrastructure.
• Provide a phased managed service for both infrastructure and desk side support services with on-site level 2 support and escalation to level 3.
• The support will include Business Continuity and DR planning, backup service, routine administration and the housekeeping tasks to monitor and maintain the new infrastructure including putting the geo-resilience in place and ongoing management of services.
• Over the lifetime of the contract Met Éireann will be looking to move to a more responsive method of delivering application upgrades and support so the vendor will be required to be familiar with a transition to Agile and DevOps methodologies.
Met Éireann requires that it’s systems are available on a 24*7*365 basis and it will be a requirement of the new service that systems will be continuously available. In addition, Met Éireann will seek to Continuously Improve service levels throughout the lifetime of this, and subsequent, service requirements.


Award value: 7500000