CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL · Awarded contract

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Provision of Ivanti DesktopNow Silver Support and Maintenance to Cheshire East Council

Awarded 12 Nov 2020

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Awarded12 Nov 2020

Value£358,778.00

SupplierSOFTCAT PLC

AgencyCHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL

RegionNorth West

CategoryIT & Software

Ended 12mo ago5y term

Awarded 12 Nov 2020Expired 11 Nov 2025

About

Cheshire East Council awarded a contract to Softcat PLC for the provision of Ivanti DesktopNow Silver (powered by AppSense) support and maintenance.

The contract was procured via a mini competition under the CCS RM3804 lot 3d framework agreement.

Cheshire East Council acted as the lead authority for this joint procurement with Cheshire West and Chester, which share a common ICT technical architecture without network segmentation.

The ICT Shared Service supports a mixed estate primarily consisting of Wintel servers running Microsoft Windows Server OS, with a small amount of non-Windows equipment such as Linux.

The contract supports an ongoing programme to migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 10 FAT clients and upgrade Citrix technologies from version 6.5 to 7.

The contract value is AUD 358,778.

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