South Australia’s City of Salisbury, an Adelaide-suburbs council, has put out a tender for the provision of core infrastructure equipment (server and storage hardware) as well as associated services for installing and commissioning the equipment.
The Council’s core infrastructure equipment is currently procured and maintained under a lease agreement.
The equipment in the data centre is, in the majority, Cisco Servers and Dell/EMC storage hardware.
Council’s aim is to supersede the current state with a Tier 1 enterprise, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, supporting a VMWare environment that will exist for at least five years.
Several Council assets are due for refresh and the Council has completed a high-level design of its required solution, using this opportunity to reduce the server fleet from eight nodes to four.
The Council has said it prefers the solution to have a centralised lifecycle and patch management for the infrastructure.
The successful tenderer will be required to supply the goods as per Council’s bill of materials (BOM), as well as provide a range of professional services.
These professional services include designing the storage and server solution in conjunction with Council (RAID level identification, connectivity between servers and storage, VLANs required, LUNs and storage pools identification); delivering and rack mounting goods for the data centre at the current site to directly connect with existing servers and storage equipment; and implementing the server/storage solution (configure servers, storage pools and install ESXi operating system (existing Council licensed product)).
The term of any resulting contract will be six months.
The tender closes at 2:00 pm on 11 July 2025.
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