The objective of this tender is to find a suitably qualified and highly experienced supplier to assist with refreshing Yarlington's current server and storage infrastructure.

The objective of this tender is to find a suitable supplier of server and storage infrastructure solutions to replace its existing, and soon to be unsupported hardware, along with providing 3rd line support to the IT Support Team.

The outcomes Yarlington are aiming for from any proposed solution include, but are not limited to:

— resilience of the solution,

— management of the solution,

— flexibility of the solution to size of the organisation,

— back-up and disaster recovery solutions,

— service and support offer,

— migration plan onto the new infrastructure platform.

Yarlington want this contract to be a success from the start and therefore require the formation of close operational and procedural links facilitated by collaborative working and performance monitoring in all areas of this project.

The contract will be for an initial period of 5 years commencing 10.7.2018 and terminating 9.7.2023. There will be an option to extend this annually a further two times (5 + 1 + 1) based on performance leading to a maximum term of 7 years terminating 9.7.2025.