Infrastructure support contract - Phoenix Community Housing

Concepts

• information technology
• infrastructure team
• vmware-based platform and infrastructure support services
• phoenix community housing
• hardware and software support
• housing
• infrastructure
• phoenix
• community
• server based applications

Location

Description

Provision of VMware-based platform and infrastructure support services, or equivalent solutions

Total Quantity or Scope

We have approximately 250 employees, comprising hybrid office/home based, or field-based-employees depending upon their role. We have one residential site and two smaller community sites which are linked to our Head Office by a hardware VPN. Staff working from home are able to access our cloud-based systems via their own internet connection, and legacy systems – which are published as Citrix applications – via a software VPN link to Head Office. Our Head Office has an IP VPN internet circuit, with an equivalently sized backup circuit. Our systems are a mix of Server based applications, and cloud services. Full details are provided in the appendices. We have a small support and infrastructure team based at our Head Office providing a full range of hardware and software support to the business, supported by application vendors/resellers. Phoenix’s current infrastructure has been in place for several years. In 2021 we migrated our on-premise vmWare environment to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services. This is now due for renewal and this tender includes options around that renewal as well as other services. Full details are provided in the schedule and appendices.

Renewal Options

Please refer to Tender documentation for full details

CPV Codes

• 72222300 - Information technology services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

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