# RHEL support

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES](/buyers/the-national-archives/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: EMPIRIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED
- Award value: £225,000
- Tender value: £225,000
- Award date: 5 October 2021
- Published: 27 October 2021
- Contract start: 1 November 2021
- Contract end: 31 October 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c1d24275-0b67-4f6c-8f62-f7842062344e-480426
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-71d3e347-9f8d-4fc2-a008-81173b964183

## Description

RedHat Implementation / Upgrade Work on the migration of the legacy servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux \(RHEL\) 6 to new servers running RHEL 8\. This will include: Understanding current architecture of the technology stack and servers Leading on migration of the existing Puppet-enabled automation under RHEL6 to Ansible under RHEL Upgrading the service to RHEL 8, with a possibility of certain servers only moving to RHEL 7 Implementing approximately 24 new physical servers as part of the migration, with some virtualisation Mentoring team members and engagement with non-technical staff, and internal and external stakeholders\. GCloud service id 166944704677579

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c1d24275-0b67-4f6c-8f62-f7842062344e-480426)