Purpose

To seek approval to undertake a
mini-competition process under Lot 3 of the Crown Commercial
Services Technology Products and Associated Services 2 framework
agreement (RM6098) in respect of a call-off contract for the supply
of Veritas Netbackup SaaS Protection; Netbackup analytics tools;
backup appliances; licenses and maintenance services.
 

Decision

In coming to this decision I have given due and full regard to the
requirements of the public sector equality duty contained in
section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 (“the Act”) by
reference to the law itself.
 
Having fully considered all the
available information, I have decided to reject the alternative
options and take the recommended decision to:
 
Delegate authority to the
Director of Digital and People to:

conduct a
mini-competition under Lot 3 of the Crown Commercial Services
Technology Products and Associated Services 2 framework agreement
(RM6098) in respect of a call-off contract for the supply of
Veritas Netbackup SaaS Protection for
the Enterprise Microsoft 365 suite; Netbackup analytics tools; and on-premise backup appliance licenses and maintenance
services. The proposed Call-Off Contract shall continue for a
period of 3 years.

 

2.    
Award such call-off contract to the preferred
tenderer
 
For the reasons
set out in the report.