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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: LAW ENFORCEMENT EXTERNAL FIREWALL REFRESH – EXPORTING OPPORTUNITY
2. Awarding Authority: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills acting on behalf of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Opportunity type Public Sector
Industry Software & Computer Services, Security
Police want a product to service existing traditional firewall functionality and includes additional capabilities of next-gen firewalls.
New Zealand Police seeks to refresh its external facing firewall infrastructure and in doing so, procure a solution which will provide significantly higher computational capacity and traffic throughput.
They want a product that is highly available, highly reliable, fault tolerant, and easy to replace/restore in the event of failure.
It is looking for suppliers who have the capability, experience, and infrastructure to provide support of its solution to an Information Communication and Technology Service Centre (ICTSC) for a government emergency service provider.
Police do not want responses:
that do not cater for 24/7 availability of technical support for hardware and/or software related incidents
that propose data storage outside of the Five-Eyes Nations. Data must be kept within the Five-Eyes Nations, noting that their preference is with New Zealand and/or Australia.
5. CPV Code(s): 72000000, 72212730
6. NUTS code(s): UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL, UKM, UKN
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: New Zealand
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Opportunity closing date 1.9.2021.
11. Address to which they must be sent: To register your interest in the above opportunity please visit:
12. Other information: TKR-2021819-EX-1674876