Core Infrastructure Hardware Support

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (the Council) is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified Provider (the Provider) to deliver hardware support and maintenance for its Core hardware infrastructure. The Provider shall be an IBM partner with proven delivery capability and technical certifications in Power systems and AIX/IBM. The Provider shall also be capable of providing associated professional services, including consultancy, technical design, implementation, migration, upgrade, troubleshooting and project support services, on an ad hoc basis if required by the Council during the contract term. The proposed contract will be for an initial duration of three (3) years with a possible one (1) twelve (12) month extension. The Council reserves the right to amend the scope of the support requirement for the extension period. This is being run as a Further Competition under GCA Technology Products & Associated Services 2 Framework - RM6098 Lot 1 Hardware and Software