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# Backup Solution

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/backup-solution-ocds-h6vhtk-03217c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Wrexham County Borough Council: "Backup Solution". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Wrexham County Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/wrexham-county-borough-council-ons-w06000006)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Backup or recovery software package
- **Delivery Location:** UKL23
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03217c`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/backup-solution-ocds-h6vhtk-03217c#tl-md)

## Description
Wrexham Country Borough Council are looking to engage with the market in advance of procuring a new backup system.
Background
The current environment is located across two datacentres connected by 40Gb local fibre backbone. The large majority of servers are virtualised using VMware connected to an IBM FlashSystem. There are a total of 320 servers, details on Server Types and Operating System are below:
Server Type / Server Count
Virtual Servers (VMWare) – 316
Physical Servers – 4
Total – 320
Operating Systems / Server Count
Windows - 294
Linux - 26
Total – 320
Currently there are 110TB of data in use, a breakdown of the data types is below:
Data Type / TB
File – 27
Oracle – 2
SQL – 14
VDI – 4
VM – 63
Total - 110
Connectivity to the network is possible by 25Gb fibre and to the storage fabric network by 32Gb fibre.
Solution Requirements
The backup solution should incorporate the 3-2-1 backup rule, a copy of backup data in each datacentre and an offsite copy in the cloud.
The below table gives details around Data Size, Growth, Change Rates and Recovery Points and Retention Periods that we require:
Data Size - 110TB
Yearly Growth Rate - 5%
Daily Change Rate - 7TB
Recovery Points - Daily 31d, Weekly 7w, Monthly 12m, Yearly 1y
Retention Period - 31d Local, 1yr Cloud*
*Depending on cost increased retention maybe an option
The possibility of a managed service would be of interest and would like to investigate this as an option.
Mailbox data is currently being moved to Office 365 with further data expected to move in the future, we would like to explore the options for backing up O365.
The solution must be able to capable of performing immutable backups.
Please email your response with an overview of your solution/service to Rachel Sanders, Category Manager by 12noon on Tuesday 8th March 2022 to rachel.sanders@wrexham.gov.uk. Please only provide information in response to the above. Please include the reference: PROC21-188 in the subject heading of your e-mail response. Please note that we may wish to speak to you regarding your response w/c 21st March 2022.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** Please see Object above.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F006882-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-03-14T15:49:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T09:05:12.336Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03217c