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:
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]