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CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE

RM5227 SO8562 Provision of Networking Equipment

Office & Computing EquipmentCPV 30000000
Value£219k
Deadline19 Feb 2015
Published16 Apr 2015
RegionSouth West
Timeline
Published 16 Apr 2015ClosedCloses 19 Feb 2015
Contract value in context
£219ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Office & Computing Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) are inviting bids for the provision of various networking equipment as follows: 20 x WSC3750X-24S-S Cisco 24 port Gig SFP 3750x Switch IP Base Image 6 x WS-C3750X-12S-S Cisco 12 port Gig SFP 3750x Switch IP Base Image 20 x C3KX-PWR-350WAC Cisco 3750X Redundant Switch power supplies 6 x ASA5512-SSD120-K9 Cisco ASA 5512-X 6 x ASA-IC-6GE-SFP-A Cisco 6-port GE SFP (SX, LH, LX) interface card 210 x GLC-GE-100FX= Cisco 100FX Multimode SFP 60 x GLC-SX-MM= Cisco 1000SX Mutimode SFP 20 x SFP-10G-LRM= Cisco 10 GBASE-LRM SFP+ module for MMF and SMF, 1310 nm 10 x C3KX-NM-10G Two Cisco 10GbE SFP+ ports network module with four physical ports with 2 x SFP+ and two regular SFP ports 200 x LC-ST Cables (Red) LSZH MM 3m 50 x LC-ST Cables (Red) LSZH MM 5m 30 x LC-LC Cables (Red) LSZH MM 100 x LC-ST Cables (Red) LSZH MM 3m 50/125 The networking equipment must meet certain requirements as follows: Must be supportable under the existing maintenance contract in place (CISCO); Must have the ability to have interchangeable SFP modules to support 100 Base Multimode 1000 Base Multimode/Singlemode Fibres; Must be layer 3 compatible; Must be fully compatible with existing equipment and technical skills.

Due to the reasons listed above and that the fact that this equipment is for a high security network, the products outlines must be provided and bids for alternative equivalents cannot be accepted.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The networking equipment must meet certain requirements

The networking equipment must meet certain requirements as follows:.

02

Must be supportable under the existing maintenance

Must be supportable under the existing maintenance contract in place (CISCO);.

03

Must have the ability to have interchangeable

Must have the ability to have interchangeable SFP modules to support 100 Base Multimode 1000 Base Multimode/Singlemode Fibres;.

04

Must be layer 3 compatible

Must be layer 3 compatible;.

05

Must be fully compatible with existing equipment

Must be fully compatible with existing equipment and technical skills.

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