The New Zealand Antarctic Institute, trading as Antarctica New Zealand, is responsible for maintaining Scott Base, New Zealand's Antarctic research station in the Ross Dependency.

What we need
To replace Antarctica New Zealand’s Christchurch-based servers and associated hardware that are, or are approaching, end-of-life:
• with modern, supportable equipment;
• configured with VM software;
• in an efficient and structured manner; and
• by appropriately skilled and experienced people.

We completed an RFP in 2021 for similar requirements for our Scott Base server infrastructure, the outcome of which gave us clarity on the equipment we want to use across Antarctica New Zealand. Therefore, this procurement is for a supplier to provide the specified equipment or equivalent, configure and install it, then migrate our servers across from our current environment.