The aim of Council in this process is to select and appoint a supplier for Information Services (IS) Assurance services to enable Council to achieve:
(a) Value for its citizens, ratepayers and customers;
(b) Optimum value consistent with its strategic objectives;
(c) Financial transparency and accountability
Council is considering rationalising the number of Data Centres utilised in addition to providing an improved Disaster Recovery facility. Presently Council uses 11 Data Centres containing over 1000 servers with storage capacity greater than one petabyte.
Council in this Request for Quotation process seeks to obtain a statement of work and quotation from organisations that can provide an Independent Subject Matter Expert for Project Assurance services including but not limited to:
• Data centre services
• Disaster recovery services
• Transitioning between Data centre’s including project management
• Creating and managing contracts relevant to the above
Closing Date: 06/07/2011
