What the buyer wrote
The work is to upgrade the search software used for the Historic England main website from our currently installed version 5 to the most recent version 7. This work is required to improve the scalability and resilience of the system; to prepare for IMT moving hosting from Claranet to Azure; and as a precursor to incorporating the Archives database of approx. 12m records. Once this work is complete we can index the Archive data and close 3 satellite websites currently used by the Archive. As part of this work we would also renew our current support which includes 3 system health checks throughout the year.
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Solr search system: Upgrade to v7
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Mar 2018
- Work ends
- 1 Mar 2019
Who the buyer named
The buyer published a contact address on this notice.