IT Hardware (Network Equipment)

The intention of this procurement is to specifically obtain the Fortinet hardware necessary for 197 GP access sites to complete the deployment of Fortinet SD-WAN across all SWLICB locations in a hub and spoke network topology to allow access to the Internet, other peering networks and cloud providers through the central hub datacentres. Thus, the scope of this procurement extends only to the provision of a single FortiGate-91G appliance and associated FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard UTP licences for each of the 197 GP access sites to simultaneously fulfil the network hardware requirement for SD-WAN endpoint and the Next Generation firewall across the SWLICB GP estate.