Closed ATM View - HOMEAFFAIRS/2141/RFT
Mainframe, midrange and shared storage services
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart
The services being sought by Home Affairs comprise two modules:
1. Managed Services – delivery of managed services for the Home Affairs future compute environment, and
2. Software (optional) – provision of one or more software products within the future compute environment.
Managed Services
Home Affairs is seeking to engage the market to establish a new future compute arrangement to replace the managed services component of an arrangement that has been in place since 2007. The high-level scope for the managed services is as follows:
a) Common services
b) Common security services
c) Mainframe services
d) Midrange services
e) Storage services
f) Data centre network services, and
g) Ancillary services
Software (optional)
As part of this RFT, Home Affairs is also seeking the optional provision of a subset of software licensing that is currently being provided under the current arrangement.
Further details are provided in the attached RFT document suite.
An industry briefing will be conducted on 25 January 2024.
A Virtual Data Room will be available for prospective tenderers to view additional documents that may assist with their tendered response. Details to request access are provided at Attachment G to the RFT.
The Tenderer must either:
a) Hold all valid and satisfactory statements of tax record relevant to its entity type by the closing time, or
b) Have a receipt demonstrating that all statements of tax record required for its entity type have been requested from the Australian Taxation Office by the Closing Time, and hold all valid and satisfactory statements of tax record no later than four business days from the closing time
The Tenderer must also hold a valid and satisfactory statement of tax record for any first tier subcontractor that it proposes, as part of its tender, to engage to deliver the services with an estimated value of over $4 million (GST inclusive)
Further details of the Conditions for Participation are set out in RFT – Attachment B
Proposed contract will commence 4th Quarter 2024