Two Enterprise Grade 'Next Generation' Firewalls

Descriptions

As part of a periodic hardware refresh program, the University wishes to procure a suitably specified pair of enterprise-grade firewalls, together with the associated software and maintenance subscriptions applicable for a 5 year lifecycle.The proposed devices should be capable of providing high availability with stateful session failover, should support commonly utilised enterprise networking and firewalling techniques and should be fully functional in a mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environment.The proposed devices should also leverage advances in firewalling technologies to be application aware in a continuous manner, leverage user identity for granular policy specification and feature comprehensive integrated threat prevention. The proposed devices must be capable of performing such actions with high throughput (10Gbps Firewall/5Gbps Threat Prevention) and minimal latency and without detrimental effects to logging or management functionality.Cardiff University will use an eTendering system in this tendering exercise. Prospective suppliers should follow the steps below to express their interest and obtain the pre-qualification questionnaire. (NB Suppliers who have previously registered on the InTend System as a Cardiff University supplier should go to Step 8).1. Suppliers should register on the InTend system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffuniversity/2. Click the New User Registration link3. Enter the user and business details requested and click Next4. Add your contact details by clicking Add. Complete the details and click Next5. Click Next again to confirm the contact details and move to the next screen6. Check all registration details are correct and click Register My Details7. You will receive an email with your username and password8. Return to the website and click Login. Enter your details and click Login9. Click the Current Tenders link to see all current tenders10. To express an interest, click on the relevant tender and then on Express Interest11. You will receive an email shortly afterwards to confirm that your expression of interest has been received and that the PQQ documents are now available to view on the system.12. Re-enter the InTend site, login and click on My Tenders. You will be able to access all documents and any online questionnaires associated with the tender.For any support in submitting your expression of interest, please contact the helpdesk via email at support@in-tend.com or by phone on 01332 869400.