The Council of the City of Sydney (the City) invites Requests for Tender for the purposes of completing and supporting the replacement of the firewall infrastructure for the Firewall Refresh Project in accordance with this request.

The City's firewalls are reaching the end of life and support in December 2025, and the City needs to update this technology to ensure all our technology and digital assets remain protected from external threats. A project has been initiated to procure hardware, software and implementation services to achieve this deliverable

The firewall refresh project (Project) will replace the City's soon out-of-support firewall infrastructure, align the cloud firewall with the new solution, and review, modify and test current boundary settings. The Project aims to: replace on-premise checkpoint firewalls with the latest equivalent hardware; ensure the software remains largely unchanged; ensure on-premise checkpoint firewalls meet business requirements; deliver cloud-based management solution to replace the on-premise management servers; replace current Microsoft Azure Firewall with Checkpoint equivalent to allow central/consistent management; and ensure the solution is fit for purpose and provides capabilities for future expansion of on-premise and cloud-based services.