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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is seeking IT hardware suppliers to provide network infrastructure for its new capital head office.
The ministry wants to appoint a lead provider to supply, configure, install, commission and test network infrastructure including network switches, firewalls and wireless access points.
The successful supplier will also need to test the system and its interconnection to the wide area network, provide detailed handover documentation and a defect liability period of 12 months.
With MFAT’s existing lease ending in September 2025, ministry leadership has opted to move to a new building where it will be the head-tenant and therefore able to directly influence the building’s design and to create workspaces that meet its requirements.
The ministry, which faced significant challenges bringing home a recent workspace transformation project, is looking for authorised resellers of Aruba and Fortinet products with experience in deploying solutions of similar scale and complexity to government clients.
Personnel assigned to the project must also be able to obtain and hold relevant national security clearences.
MFAT is planning to move into its new, $250 million customised Thorndon accommodation at 61 Molesworth Street next September.
The old building on that site, now demolished, was one of 35 damaged in the Kaikoura earthquake in 2013.
MetService, which has been named as a sub-tenant, moved out of its Kelburn building and into temporary premises two and a half years ago because of the cost of seismic strengthening.