Tender: Legacy Red Black Blue and Marwan Through Life Support - Early Market Engagement Questionnaire

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Ministry of Defence (MOD), Defence Digital (DD), Deployed & Interoperability Services (D&IS) currently have two separate contracts for the provision of Legacy Through Life Support in place: - Red (LC2 - Win 7) Blue (CENTRIXS Win 10) and - Black – (Minerva Win7), MARWAN Component (Communication technology to allow connection to bearers of opportunity services) for Maritime capability. These cover three classification domains RED (LC2 providing services at SECRET UK Eyes Only), BLACK (Minerva providing services at OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL SENSITIVE); BLUE (CENTRIXS providing services at NATO and Coalition SECRET, also referred to as “MISSON SECRET”). The Authority requires that the legacy Maritime Systems for the above services continue to be sustained and fully supported during the transitional period until the NSOIT(D) OpNET capability achieves Full Operating Capability (FOC). The requirement is for the delivery of: Service Management/Operations and Through Life Support (TLS) services for deployable MOD IT systems centred around Maritime platforms (MINERVA, MARWAN, UK CENTRIXS, and LC2) together with the following associated Systems, Services, Gateways and Boundary Protection Devices (BPDs). - EJCP (Enhanced Joint Communications Processor) - ISCAS (Interoperability to Support Coexistence with the Authority) BPD - CDCIE (Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment) BDP - The NATO Bridgehead Servers - Collingwood Training Services Environments - Northwood production Services - Reference, Test & Development Rigs - ILS Support Services Notes Presently the Authority has contracts for provision of Deployed Legacy Through Life Support off MOD premise covering Red, Black and Blue in place and is finalising its contract requirements for future service provision for an estimated/ approximate initial term in the range of 2 years to 3 years with 2 x optional up to 1 year extension periods (or broadly equivalent commercial construct). This will be with a view to the publ