Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Phoenix Community Housing · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Converged IT Ltd SME
- Value
- £158,667.36
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- IT services · Information technology services (CPV 72222300)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 000245-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Jan 2025
- Published6 Jan 2025Published the same day
Description
We have approximately 250 employees, comprising hybrid office/home based, or field-based-employees depending upon their role. We have one residential site and two smaller community sites which are linked to our Head Office by a hardware VPN. Staff working from home are able to access our cloud-based systems via their own internet connection, and legacy systems – which are published as Citrix applications – via a software VPN link to Head Office. Our Head Office has an IP VPN internet circuit, with an equivalently sized backup circuit. Our systems are a mix of Server based applications, and cloud services. Full details are provided in the appendices. We have a small support and infrastructure team based at our Head Office providing a full range of hardware and software support to the business, supported by application vendors/resellers. Phoenix’s current infrastructure has been in place for several years. In 2021 we migrated our on-premise vmWare environment to VMware Cloud on Amazon W…
About the supplier
Converged IT Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11859040).