# Cisco Compute Hardware

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [MCA - Maritime and Coastguard Agency](/buyers/mca-maritime-and-coastguard-agency/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Computacenter \(UK\) Limited](/contract-winners/computacenter-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £506,189
- Tender value: £506,189
- Award date: 23 March 2021
- Published: 24 August 2021
- Contract start: 24 March 2021
- Contract end: 31 March 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 4925e8d2-3a32-43cc-ab8f-8e83328bd6ea-463158
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-44d3042b-0817-473b-b3ff-e5481d1c8286

## Description

Following the White Spider Blue Light Data Centre audit, several hardware components of the Blue Light Data Centreinfrastructure have reached an end-of-life stage or are fast approaching a point where they will become unsupportable by the manufacturer\.This procurement covers the purchase of the necessary Cisco computehardware components which will safely and reliably maintain the Blue Light Network Infrastructure in the medium term, whilst a full infrastructure replacement is ongoing\. The purchase includes Data Centre and CGOC serversand ancillary components that form the core computing facilities of the Blue Light Network\. Together these provide operational services to all Coastguard operational locations as well as within the Data Centres\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4925e8d2-3a32-43cc-ab8f-8e83328bd6ea-463158)