Decision details

RESOLVED:

1.     That the procurement for Hyperconverged System Phase 2 be added to the 2020/21 Annual Procurement Forward Plan (APFP) in accordance with the Council’s Procurement and Contract Standing Orders be approved.

2.     That where the first ranked tender for this project is within the +/-5% budgetary tolerance level, the relevant Executive Director, Director or Head of Service (as appropriate) be delegated authority to award such contracts.

Reason for Decision:

• To comply with the Procurement and Contract Standing Orders agreed by the Council in May 2019.

• To provide Cabinet with strategic oversight of planned procurement projects for 2020/21.

• New hardware is required to address current issues with the data centres server infrastructure, including:

o   Increasing hardware faults, in particular hard disk failures, caused by the current infrastructure reaching end of life;

o   Capacity issues with the current infrastructure;

o   Ability to make critical systems (e.g. Children’s, Finance, ERP) highly available.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Resources and Performance Select Committee]