# Online Storage requirement

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Uk Intellectual Property Office
- Contract winner: [Computacenter](/contract-winners/computacenter/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £287,461
- Tender value: £287,461
- Award date: 23 December 2016
- Published: 23 February 2017
- Contract start: 3 January 2017
- Contract end: 31 March 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 6df1761a-5419-46c3-89a2-c7063bbdfc4e-132026
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-a116bac7-2b87-4ae9-bc87-a7b9c46cab6d

## Description

The Intellectual Property Office currently utilise an IBM V7000 SAN hosted over two sites\. It is used to host our virtual estate of servers, Desktops and Networking devices\. Support costs have grown exponentially over the last two years\. Due to this, the IPO has decided to replace this ageing technology with newer, more efficient SAN\. The scope for this tender will include:- i\. Procurement, installation and configuration of the SAN; ii\. Proposals must include hardware/software support for the next three \(3\) years; and iii\. Proposals must include an option for another 150tb of storage on the primary site for backups\. Proposals will NOT include data migration\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6df1761a-5419-46c3-89a2-c7063bbdfc4e-132026)