This improved SSSNA agreement provides a compliant and responsible route for universities to procure servers, storage and solutions, including converged infrastructure and end to end solutions.
Meet your Category Manager
What can you purchase through this framework?
This framework covers the provision of servers, storage and solutions, including converged infrastructure and end to end solutions. It also includes soft services to support the delivery and implementation of these products and solutions. This Agreement is split into 5 lots as follows:
- Lot 1: Servers
- Lot 2: Storage
- Lot 3: Solutions – Converged, Hyper-Converged, Hybrid and Other solutions (excluding HPC and DIC)
- Lot 4: Solutions – High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Intensive Computing (DIC) Only
- Lot 5: Reseller Solutions
Meet the suppliers
- Dell Corporation Ltd
- HPE Ltd
- Fujitsu Services Ltd
- Lenovo Technology (UK) Ltd
- Supermicro Inc
- Netapp UK Ltd
- Pure Storage UK Limited
- XMA Ltd
- NEC Europe Ltd
- Logicalis Ltd
- Softcat PLC
- CDW Ltd
- Trustmarque Solutions Ltd
- SCC (Specialist Computer Centres) plc
- OCF
- CSI Ltd.
- CAE Technology Services Ltd
- Novatech Ltd
- BIOS IT (Trading as Boston Limited)
- MTI Technology Limited
- Computacenter (UK) Ltd
About the SSSNA Framework
What are the benefits of using this agreement?
- all hardware pricing includes a standard 5-year next business day fix on-site warranty, together with an options to extend the warranty period up to 7 years
- provides compliance under current UK Procurement Directives
- full software support is provided and facilitates access for Member Institutions and their buyers to obtain patches, bug fixes, new software releases and documentation (including BIOS firmware releases) as required
- new Call off Contract for Institutions to use as template for contracting with suppliers
- gives robust performance management by setting clear KPI’s to be monitored over the life of the agreement.
How has sustainability, equality and diversity been considered as part of the tender?
Sustainability is of key concern to the HE sector and our suppliers are encouraged to operate and promote sustainable practices. Suppliers are evaluated in terms of their approach to:
- modern Slavery and ethical treatment of workers in their supply chain
- supply chain strategies for ethical raw material sourcing
- compliance to WEEE regulations and reporting
- design strategies to facilitate reuse, recycling and recovery of materials
- carbon reporting