Data Centre Exit

Description

The Authority is seeking to appoint a Hyperscaler to manage the migration of servers from the current on-premise solution to the Hyperscalers cloud environment. It is anticipated that the appointment will be limited to a single Hyperscaler, but this will be validated during the procurement. The Authority acknowledges that Hyperscalers may wish to sub-contract elements of the service delivery, but it is mandatory that the contracting entity is a capable Hyperscaler who will manage the migration and hosting from the current on-premise solution. The primary objective of the DCE Programme is to exit three Fujitsu-hosted data centres and migrate associated services to new destination platforms. The server inventory has a mix of the following operating systems: • HP-Unix • IBM AIX • Sun Solaris • Red Hat Enterprise Linux • SUSE Linux Enterprise • Windows • VMware ESXi • Oracle Linux • Oracle Enterprise Linux • MWG-MLOS • NetApp ONTAP • 3rd Party Maintained The selected supplier will need to: 1. Migrate all of the in-scope services and associated infrastructure from the existing on-premise data centres to the Cloud. As part of the migration all required R-testing will need to be completed. 2. Following migration, the selected supplier will provide Cloud hosting capabilities for in-scope services in a secure Cloud environment to ensure continuity of services. The supplier will be required to provide a platform capable of sustaining business change, as well as mitigating current security and resilience concerns. HMRC has conducted an initial assessment of the R-treatment required for migration. This will be refined throughout the procurement process. The selected supplier will need to work with the existing suppliers and relevant HMRC teams including the business teams, to validate the detailed plan for the migration and execute the migration within the agreed timeline.