# Corporate Firewall Solution

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Leicestershire County Council](/buyers/leicestershire-county-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Insight Direct \(UK\) Ltd](/contract-winners/insight-direct-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £180,000
- Tender value: £180,000
- Award date: 8 January 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 1 April 2016
- Contract end: 1 April 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: af01c4e4-3457-4735-abbf-dac37bfaddef-84952
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-34aa99bd-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

Leicestershire County Council owns several Checkpoint Firewall licenses ? both for firewall modules and management modules\. Checkpoint is an established part of the perimeter security arrangements\. In order to maintain its layered perimeter security LCC is currently seeking a refresh of the hardware to run the Checkpoint firewall, and alongside that a renewal of the support and maintenance agreements\. The Checkpoint firewalls are currently deployed as an inner firewall layer, with two pairs clustered with VRRP Failover to protect the LCC LAN/WAN, and another pair clustered with VRRP Failover to protect the LCC PSN Public Services Network zone\. In addition, the firewalls are used to segment off several DMZs from the LAN/WAN and the Internet, used for a variety of purposes such as external email gateways, public-facing webservers, terminating links from trusted partners etc\. Additional information: A further competition via the Crown Commercial Service Framework ? Technology Products RM1054 /Lot 1 ? Technology Hardware and Services Submission via tendering portal

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/af01c4e4-3457-4735-abbf-dac37bfaddef-84952)