Award GB CF

IT Hardware (Network Equipment)

N H S Shared Business Services

Stage: Award

the latest stage the buyer has published
Buyer: N H S Shared Business Services
Supplier: SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES DENMARK LTD

named in the award notice
Value: £708K

net · GBP
Awarded: 19 Aug 2024

the award date on the notice
End date: 31 Mar 2025

expected
First published: 29 Nov 2024

last seen 29 Nov 2024

What the buyer published

The intention of this procurement is to specifically obtain the Fortinet hardware necessary for 197 GP access sites to complete the deployment of Fortinet SD-WAN across all SWLICB locations in a hub and spoke network topology to allow access to the Internet, other peering networks and cloud providers through the central hub datacentres. Thus, the scope of this procurement extends only to the provision of a single FortiGate-91G appliance and associated FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard UTP licences for each of the 197 GP access sites to simultaneously fulfil the network hardware requirement for SD-WAN endpoint and the Next Generation firewall across the SWLICB GP estate.

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History of this contract

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◌ Planning none

◌ Tender none

● Award on record

● End date 31 Mar 2025, expected

Why we call this Network security

Judged against the rules we publish. How we decide.

Network security Firewalls, web and email filtering, VPN and secure access, and their management.

Licence and subscription renewals A renewal of a security product licence or subscription.

Multi-service and framework contracts A framework or call-off contract that many buyers can use.