# IT Hardware \(Network Equipment\)

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [N H S Shared Business Services](/buyers/n-h-s-shared-business-services/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES DENMARK LTD
- Award value: £708,300
- Tender value: £708,300
- Award date: 19 August 2024
- Published: 29 November 2024
- Contract start: 16 August 2024
- Contract end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 0b1d5624-a87a-42d7-8217-02d5ee277399-806764
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-338a086c-0010-4e37-90df-8437d35b83c8

## Description

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\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0b1d5624-a87a-42d7-8217-02d5ee277399-806764)