Notice Information
Notice Title
BC/DR co-location and connectivity
Notice Description
The service includes renting rack space in the provider's data centre facility, establishing connectivity between our sites and the existing disaster recovery site, and related services.
Procurement Information
Moat Homes Limited considers that this direct award is permitted, relying on the direct award justifications for single supplier - technical reasons and extreme and unavoidable urgency. In relation to the single supplier technical reasons justification, Moat already has established disaster recovery and Business Continuity (DR/BC) co-location services in place with CustodianDC. The proposed contract is, in substance, an extension of that existing arrangement to address a material resilience risk at our sites and to deliver a coherent, end-to-end DR/BC and hosting solution. The current production and DR/BC environments are designed, hosted and operated as an integrated solution with Custodian. Introducing an alternative supplier at this point would require substantial re-engineering, data migration and re-testing of the Authority's infrastructure and failover arrangements. This would create disproportionate technical and operational difficulty and significantly increase the risk of disruption to critical services. In practice, there are no reasonable alternative solutions that could be implemented within the required timescales without incurring those risks, and for technical reasons, only CustodianDC is capable of supplying the required services at this time. In relation to the extreme and unavoidable urgency justification, Moat has recently identified and experienced a significant degradation in the resilience of the infrastructure supporting one of our sites. As a consequence, there is now a heightened and credible risk of an unplanned loss of service if the current arrangements are not urgently remediated. Taking into account the time needed to define requirements, run a compliant competitive process, appoint a new supplier and then transition and stabilise services, Moat has concluded that it is not possible to complete a competitive tendering procedure and implement an alternative solution within the time available to mitigate that risk. The services to be procured under this contract are limited to what is necessary to address the immediate resilience risk and ensure continuity of services while a longer-term solution is developed and, where appropriate, competitively procured. In these circumstances, a direct award to CustodianDC is considered necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency and cannot reasonably be achieved through an open or competitive flexible procedure within the required timeframe.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05effd
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080295-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Direct
- Procurement Method Details
- Direct award
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72251000 - Disaster recovery services
72317000 - Data storage services
72510000 - Computer-related management services
72720000 - Wide area network services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £385,786 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 5 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 5 Dec 20252 months ago
- Contract Period
- 5 Jan 2026 - 5 Jan 2028 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- MOAT HOMES LIMITED
- Contact Name
- Procurement Department
- Contact Email
- procurement@moat.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +443003230011
Buyer Location
- Locality
- DARTFORD
- Postcode
- DA2 6QE
- Post Town
- Dartford
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ4 Kent
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ43 Kent Thames Gateway
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Dartford
- Electoral Ward
- Stone Castle
- Westminster Constituency
- Dartford
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080295-2025
5th December 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080272-2025
5th December 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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