Met Éireann IMaMS PIN - Selection of Infrastructure and Managed Service partner

Descriptions

THIS IS NOT A TENDER COMPETITION NO TENDER DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS STAGE. Following a strategic review of ICT requirements for the period 2021 to 2026, Met Éireann, a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, intend to seek a partner who will help Met Éireann on their journey to create a more flexible, responsive, geo resilient ICT Infrastructure. As part of this journey Met Éireann, along with their chosen partner, will:•Design, procure, configure, integrate, test and deploy new ICT infrastructure in 2 Government Data Centres. This will include replacing the existing ICT infrastructure which will largely be end of life by Q4 2022. •Migrate all data, applications, and physical and virtual machines from the current Met Éireann ICT infrastructure to the new infrastructure. •Build the ICT network to support all migration to new infrastructure.•Provide a phased Managed Service for both infrastructure and Desk Side support services with on-site level 2 support and escalation to level 3. •The support will include Business Continuity and DR planning, backup service, routine administration and the housekeeping tasks to monitor and maintain the new infrastructure including putting the geo-resilience in place and ongoing management of services. •The entire service will be in keeping with Government ICT Strategy.•Over the lifetime of the contract Met Éireann will be looking to move to a more responsive method of delivering application upgrades and support so the vendor will be required to be familiar with a transition to Agile and DevOps methodologies. Met Éireann requires that it’s systems are available on a 24*7*365 basis For more information, please see attached document.