NSW Telco Authority goes to tender for hyperconverged infrastructure refresh

The NSW Telco Authority (NSWTA) has published a request for tender for a hyperconverged infrastructure refresh.

The project aims to deliver end-to-end project management, including design, migration, and decommissioning, tailored to the NSW Telco Authority’s needs.

Its scope includes replacing end-of-life hardware, migrating workloads, and enhancing network performance while minimising disruption to communications.

The NSWTA needs outdated HCI hardware replaced, workloads migrated “seamlessly”, and network reliability ”enhanced”.

This includes working with the current network supplier to rebuild its cluster, secure decommissioning of hardware, and developing a UAT environment with Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere infrastructure.

Proposals must include detailed “project management aligned with best practices”, with project management plans covering design, implementation, migration, and decommissioning.”

Suppliers must be certified by Cisco, Nutanix, Veeam, and VMware. The NSWTA stated that is prioritises value for money, quality, and expertise under NSW ICT Services Scheme 0020.

Suppliers will need to detail their migration approach, integration with NSWTA’s business-critical application vendor, and provide pricing on a time-and-materials basis.

The tender application period closes on December 19, 2024.