A New Zealand government owned education provider in Wellington, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, has issued a tender for an ICT service provider to assess its ICT infrastructure needs for the next 10 years. With a strength of 12 staff-mates, the education institute supports a local area and a wide area otherwise, across the campuses in Wellington, Auckland and Kapiti.It has over 120 virtual servers, 1,500 desktops and laptops, and 90 applications. Voice services include VoIP and standard telephony.
With approaching deadline for receiving the entries by March 12, 2010, the bidder to be selected is to assess the ICT server and network infrastructure, develop an architectural framework, define the roles of ICT staff and establish a connection to the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN).
