Commodity Server Hardware to Support Swinburne Object Storage

⁠⁠⁠About This Opportunity
The Swinburne Cloud Infrastructure is a part of the Cloud Enablement project located at Swinburne University of Technology (“the University”). The Swinburne Cloud provides access to cost efficient compute, storage and middleware service infrastructure with cloud characteristics that meets University’s staff and researchers needs.

The University currently provides a variety of data storage services to University staff and researchers, and wishes to diversify the technology underpinning its storage services in order to increase cost effectiveness and improve service performance.

This Request for Tender(RFT) is for provision of Ceph based Storage and monitoring servers needed to geographically replicate at the two(2) Data Centres at Swinburne University.

The University has developed a specification for the commodity storage servers required and seeks to purchase servers to that specification.

About the Process
Respondents will be required to complete the pre-qualification response as part of their submission by the due date.

Communication during the Tender Process
It is a requirement that respondents use the communication tools within the e-tender system to make enquiries about the process or request clarifications from Swinburne. We will also respond to your enquiries using the e-tender system.

Submission Requirements
You are required to submit your tender using this e-tender portal. Swinburne will not accept responses submitted in any other way ie hardcopy, email or by USB stick.