# UKRI DDaT19266 IUK Private Cloud Hosting and Support Services

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED](/buyers/uk-shared-business-services-limited/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES](/contract-winners/capita-business-services/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £995,815
- Tender value: £995,815
- Award date: 31 October 2019
- Published: 2 December 2019
- Contract start: 1 November 2019
- Contract end: 31 October 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 0f8fb13c-2b2d-492c-88da-17bab1c2e82f-329657
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8ba430dc-faef-481a-bbd9-c171118468fe

## Description

UK Shared Business Services Ltd acting on behalf of the contracting authority United Kingdom Research and Innovation have put in place a contract for cloud hosting and support services for the following UKRI platforms: 1\)\_Connect; 2\) Grants; 3\) KTP\. As part of the ongoing hosting and maintenance service provision, a series of service enhancements and upgrades have been agreed, which will be delivered over the term of the forthcoming contract\. These upgrades and enhancements are: 1\) Implementation of new load balancer on Connect and Grants; 2\) Implementation of new monitoring and network control systems; 3\) Upgrade of all core firewall firmware to the latest versions \(currently on latest branch\); 4\) Switch to new virtualisation and storage platform; 5\) Deployment of new DNS infrastructure to remove reliable on static host files; 6\) Upgrade of all sub-systems to Debian 9 or 10; 7\) Upgrade of Apache Solr and MySQL to latest versions; 8\) Rewrite of all firewall rules to improve security and reduce load on new firewall appliances; 9\) Implementation of automatic penetration testing; 10\) Rebuild of the Atlassian DevTools stack within AWS - latest version \(currently on latest in branch\) and improved scaling/resilience; 11\) Liferay \(6\.2\) Upgrade completion; 12\) OpenAM Upgrade completion\. This contract has been awarded in alignment with the Crown Commercial Services RM1557\.11 G Cloud 11 framework

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0f8fb13c-2b2d-492c-88da-17bab1c2e82f-329657)