Published Date: 10 January 2020
Tender Status: complete
Tender Opening Date: n/a
Tender Closing Date: 10 December 2019
Award Date: 18 December 2019
Contract Start Date: 13 January 2020
Contract End Date: 31 January 2023
Contract is suitable for SMEs: Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs: Yes
Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Type: Products
The final date and time for the submission of bids is 10/12/2019 at 14:00.
DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.
All tender information MUST be submitted through the Delta eSourcing Portal.
Brief Description of Requirement
UKSBS runs two Oracle EBS systems, ROE and BOE. These use Oracle OBI as their reporting tool. OBI presents a very difficult workload and is highly sensitive to latency. It was intended to run the OBI function on the UKSBS Oracle storage platform which is a modern general purpose all flash array. However, performance was found to be poor and the system was moved to an in-house built ZFS array utilizing Optane disks. Performance was found to be good with this system but a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS), supportable and Enterprise grade system is required going forward. A proof of concept has been undertaken with a commercial NVMe based ZFS device which also proved positive.
It has therefore been concluded that the extreme low latency offered by ZFS and NVMe is most likely to offer the performance required and so tenders for a COTS device based on these technologies are invited.
The tender is for supply, installation, storage system design (disk/disk pool/volume layout etc, in association with the in-house team), commissioning, performance validation and knowledge transfer to our team. Data transfer will be handled by the in-house team using our own tools.
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This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the ITQ document.
How to Apply
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Contact name: Ben Oborne
Address: Polaris House North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England
Telephone: 01793 867005
Fax: n/a
Email: [email protected]
Price Range: £110,000 - £134,000
