Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of Data Centre Colocation Space Services
Notice Description
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a requirement for the provision of datacentre space. The service provides secure hosting facilities to support the Trust's secondary infrastructure, ensuring resilience and continuity of critical systems.
Procurement Information
The current service is operationally and technically dependent on the existing datacentre environment, including established rack space, power configuration, and cross-connect/network circuits. These are tightly integrated into the Trust's wider infrastructure. A move to an alternative provider would therefore not be a simple contract change, but a full infrastructure migration, requiring, physical relocation of live production hardware, reconfiguration of network connectivity, routing, and security and coordination with multiple third parties. This would create significant technical complexity, resource demand, and delivery risk, including potential service disruption during migration and impact to business-critical systems. Given these dependencies, changing supplier would result in incompatibility with the existing environment and disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance, alongside additional cost and risk. On this basis, continuing with the incumbent provider is considered the most appropriate approach to ensure service continuity, stability, and risk mitigation. South London and Maudsley NHS Trust is relying on Section 41 and paragraph 7 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 to justify the use of direct award in special cases.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-06d052
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068911-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK5 - Transparency Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Direct
- Procurement Method Details
- Direct award
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72317000 - Data storage services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £190,000 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 21 Jul 20266 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 21 Jul 20266 days ago
- Contract Period
- 30 Jul 2026 - 30 Jan 2029 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BECKENHAM
- Postcode
- BR3 3BX
- Post Town
- Bromley
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI6 Outer London - South
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI61 Bromley
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Bromley
- Electoral Ward
- Kelsey & Eden Park
- Westminster Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068911-2026
21st July 2026 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender
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