Met Éireann, a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, intend to seek a partner who will help Met Éireann on their journey to create a more flexible, responsive, geo resilient ICT Infrastructure. As part of this journey Met Éireann, along with their chosen partner, will:

• Design, procure, configure, integrate, test and deploy new ICT infrastructure in 2 Government Data Centres. This will include replacing the existing ICT infrastructure which will largely be end of life by Q4 2022.

• Migrate all data, applications, and physical and virtual machines from the current Met Éireann ICT infrastructure to the new infrastructure.

• Build the ICT network to support all migration to new infrastructure.

• Provide a phased Managed Service for both infrastructure and Desk Side support services with on-site level 2 support and escalation to level 3.

• The support will include Business Continuity and DR planning, backup service, routine administration and the housekeeping tasks to monitor and maintain the new infrastructure including putting the geo-resilience in place and ongoing management of services.

• The entire service will be in keeping with Government ICT Strategy.

• Over the lifetime of the contract Met Éireann will be looking to move to a more responsive method of delivering application upgrades and support so the vendor will be required to be familiar with a transition to Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Met Éireann requires that it’s systems are available on a 24*7*365 basis
For more information, please see attached document.