ICT Managed Service Provider - Ferguslie Park Housing Association

Ferguslie Park Housing Association (FPHA) is an independent community-based housing association with over 800 properties and we are governed by a volunteer management committee, many of whom are our customers. We are a registered social landlord and a society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. We have been a registered Scottish Charity since 2003 and do not distribute our surpluses, but rather, we reinvest these for the benefit of our current and future customers. We have one wholly-owned subsidiary, the New Tannahill Centre Ltd. It is also a registered Scottish Charity and is run by a committee of volunteers. Together we form The Ferguslie Group. FPHA are undertaking a procurement to appoint a suiably competent, experienced and knowledgeable ICT Managed Service Provider for upto a maximum of 5 years from appointment. The ICT environment is critical to the delivery of frontline social housing services. The scope of the contract includes the 24/7/365 support of the Group’s ICT provision and will also include planned hardware and software updates over the period of the appointment. From an ICT viewpoint, FPHA, is a “single site” operation from its head office in the Tannahill Centre, 76 Blackstoun Road, Paisley, PA3 1NT where the secure server room is located. Primarily FPHA is single-site operation with remote and mobile working capability. The MSP is expected to deliver the following key services - Strategic architecture - Onboarding of all services in-scope of the solution - First-, second- and third-line service desk - Hosting, including support for the servers and associated storage - Security infrastructure including firewall management - Security Operations Centre which is staffed 24x7 and can readily respond to and independently action any alerts particularly outside of FPHA’s normal business hours - Resilient connectivity between FPHA’s Head Office and the hosting service - Resilient Internet connectivity - Telephone system - Local Wired and Wireless Area Networks - End-user support, with on-site visits if and as required - Building of new end-user devices and maintenance of these builds - Patching - Backup including Private/Public cloud hosted services Office 365 services including Email, OneDrive and SharePoint - Monthly service reports and meetings The final scope and delivery model will be refined during mobilisation in agreement with the Contractor