SOL – Disaster Recovery - Modification

Concepts

• disaster recovery
• solihull
• council's data centre
• it disaster recovery solution
• recovery of hp
• sol
• modification
• tape backup system
• appropriate data
• supplier’s site

Location

Solihull

Description

Contract awarded for an IT Disaster Recovery solution to provide resilience for key systems and applications. The solution enables the recovery of HP and Sun servers (and the appropriate data related to them) from a Netbackup based disc and tape backup system. The Backups are taken over private Ethernet connection from the Council's Data Centre to storage on the supplier’s site. The supplier currently provides these services to the authority under a contract due to expire on 31 July 2021.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 72251000 - Disaster recovery services

Indicators

• Contract modified due to unforeseen circumstances.

Legal Justification

The need for this modification has been brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority could not have foreseen. Solihull MBC (SMBC) could not have reasonably foreseen the occurrence of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its resulting impacts upon service delivery, IT infrastructure needs and strategy. Outside of these unforeseen circumstances SMBC would have followed a more evolutionary approach to modifying our systems and ways of working, which would have resulted in the ability to clearly define our future disaster recovery needs. Due to the rapid change caused by unforeseen circumstances, SMBC has needed to respond with a similarly revolutionary shift in ways of working to sustain service delivery in a massively transformed environment.The proposed modification does not alter the overall nature of the contract as the only element of the contract to be changed is the duration. The increase in duration would not cause the overall price to exceed 50% of the value of the