Notice Information
Notice Title
GCC006191CPU - The Provision of Compute and Storage Services
Notice Description
The council invites tender bids for the provision of compute and storage services. This procurement will be conducted via the Public Contracts Scotland-Tender portal (PCS-T). The contract is expected to run for an Initial Term of approximately 69 months. The council will have an option to extend the contract for periods of up to 60 months (in total) which will be exercised by the council serving notice on the Bidder in accordance with the council's Terms and Conditions. The estimated value of this contract over the maximum permitted duration of 129 months (69 plus up to 60) is expected to be within the range of 80,000,000 GBP to 110,000,000 GBP. TUPE may apply to this contract. Please refer to the Procurement Documents contained within PCS-T for full details relating to this opportunity.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The council invites tender bids for the provision of compute and storage services. The Service Provider will provide datacentre and cloud infrastructure services to the council. It is anticipated that the Compute and Storage Services shall commence on 01 October 2025 (the 'Commencement Date'). Following the Due Diligence Period the Service Provider will be required to transition services from the current provider to the Service Provider's environment during the Implementation Period and prior to the Operational Services Commencement Date of 01 July 2026. At a high level the Services will consist of: 1. A primary Tier 3 datacentre conforming to Tier 3 standards; 2. Disaster Recovery provision conforming to Tier 3 standards; 3. Provision, hosting and management of resilient Virtual server environments; 4. Provision, hosting and management of Physical server environments; 5. Installation, management and maintenance of current and new Operating systems and underpinning services; 6. Provision, hosting and management of scalable Storage services; 7. Backup, restore and archive, including immutable backups; 8. Provision and management of Datacentre internal networking; 9. Datacentre power management and reporting; 10. Connectivity between the Service Provider's datacentres and the Council's WAN; 11. Firewall provision, hosting, maintenance, management and configuration; 12. Private cloud infrastructure provision, hosting and management; and 13. Public cloud infrastructure provision and management. As part of the delivery of this service, the Supplier will be required to integrate with the SIAM function. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the nature of the Services, some information related to the procurement is considered sensitive, as it relates to the council's security systems. In order to maintain confidentiality, the council require that a Confidentiality Agreement is signed by an Economic Operator prior to releasing the confidential information to them as part of this tender process. Economic Operators should complete and return the Confidentiality Agreement found within the Tender Pack in the "Buyer Attachments" area of PCS-T, and submit via the Q&A facility on the PCS-T portal as soon as possible. It is only following completion and return that the council shall send the information via email to the nominated individual listed on the Economic Operator's Confidentiality Agreement. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Renewal: Option to extend for periods of up to an additional 60 months (in total) at the sole discretion of Glasgow City Council.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0529b4
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070114-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
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- CPV Codes
30200000 - Computer equipment and supplies
48620000 - Operating systems
48800000 - Information systems and servers
48820000 - Servers
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72120000 - Hardware disaster-recovery consultancy services
72212710 - Backup or recovery software development services
72246000 - Systems consultancy services
72250000 - System and support services
72251000 - Disaster recovery services
72252000 - Computer archiving services
72253200 - Systems support services
72315000 - Data network management and support services
72317000 - Data storage services
72510000 - Computer-related management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £44,932,948 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 31 Oct 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 10 Jul 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 8 Oct 202510 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- This contract has an initial term of 69 months with options to extend for periods of up to 60 months (in total). Reprocurement may therefore take place any time from 2030 onwards.
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- Glasgow City Council
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G2 1DU
- Postcode Area
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- TLM82 Glasgow City
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- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Anderston/City/Yorkhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow North East
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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