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title: "Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03030c"
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buyer: "OUR FUTURE HEALTH"
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# Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract

Buyer: OUR FUTURE HEALTH  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03030c

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## Summary

Our Future Health, a UK health research programme, is currently running a public procurement process for the provision of Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing services. The programme aims to improve health outcomes by facilitating research on disease prevention, detection, and treatment. The procurement includes securing scalable cloud infrastructure, a secure research environment, and a billing partner for cloud usage by researchers. Critical aspects of this tender include the cancellation of some lots and the award of contracts to Microsoft Limited for Cloud Infrastructure and DNAnexus Inc. for the Trusted Research Environment and Researcher Billing.

This tender opportunity by Our Future Health presents avenues for growth to businesses interested in providing information technology services. Companies specializing in cloud services, secure research environments, and billing solutions for researchers are well-suited to compete. The provision of high-quality, secure, and scalable services to support a large-scale health research programme is key to meeting the needs of Our Future Health. Successful bidders will play a crucial role in facilitating innovative research and advancing the health research landscape in the UK.

## Notice

Our Future Health aims to be the UK's largest ever health research programme. It is designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection and treatment of diseases. Our Future Health aims to procure: - secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support our health research programme - a trusted research environment (TRE) to enable registered and approved researchers to access and use data within a secure environment - a partner to manage the billing of cloud compute and storage costs for researchers using the TRE

### Lot Information

Cloud infrastructure

Our Future Health aims to procure secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support a health research programme. The selected supplier will be one of our most important technology partners as we build and scale our systems. The cloud infrastructure will underpin web sites and apps used by our participants, a data store and data processing systems, a trusted research environment (TRE) and associated systems used by researchers from around the world, and underlying systems to operate and monitor the programme. The selected supplier will provide UK hosting for secure public cloud infrastructure with a comprehensive set of standard compute, storage and infrastructure services. We are interested to work with cloud providers that have good availability of TRE providers already working within their systems.

Options: Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total

Renewal: Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total

Trusted research environment

Our Future Health is planning to procure a trusted research environment (TRE) to enable registered researchers to access and use data within a single secure environment to conduct approved research studies. The success of Our Future Health rests on the research that is done with the data and the cohort, together with our commitment to robust security, strict governance and participant confidentiality. A TRE is an environment, that may be cloud-based, that allows registered researchers working on an approved study to conduct analysis on de-identified or pseudonymised datasets in a secure manner, where export of results data is permitted but exports of individual level data is not permitted. It is expected that a TRE will create a separate partitioned workspace for each approved study, allow registered researchers to use a variety of common tools for data science, analysis, and research (including large-scale genomic analysis), to upload additional tools and datasets subject to the security restrictions of the environment, to have flexibility in their use of compute and storage resources. A TRE should maintain the access control and secure boundary to prevent unauthorised access to or download of data, and to maintain auditable access and usage logs. The selected TRE (lot 2) will be expected to run on the selected cloud infrastructure (lot 1), with the selected provider of researcher billing (lot 3) providing services to manage the cost and billing of cloud usage by researchers in the TRE. We hope to have a beta version of a TRE tested and launched by the end of Q3 2022, and a full version tested and launched by the end of Q4 2022.

Options: Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total

Renewal: Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total

Researcher billing

In order to provide a scalable and flexible service, where researchers can use the cloud resources that they need, we anticipate a system where researchers pay for their own cloud storage and compute within their TRE workspace. We are therefore planning to procure a partner who can meet the following requirements, working together with the selected provider of public cloud infrastructure (lot 1) or the selected TRE (lot 2): - Billing of researchers and collection of payments to be handled by a supplier or partner, not by Our Future Health. - Our Future Health shall not be liable for the costs of researchers' compute and storage within the TRE. - Our Future Health shall not incur data transfer charges between the primary data store and the TRE. - Cloud pricing shall be uniform for both Our Future Health's usage and researcher usage. Bidders cannot bid for Lot 3 alone and must bid for both or either Lot 1 and/or Lot 2.

Options: Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total

Renewal: Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027822-2022 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 4 Oct 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 28 Mar 2022 |
| Future notice date | 14 Feb 2022 |
| Award date | 1 Sep 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £1,990,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | OUR FUTURE HEALTH |
| Locality | SALFORD |
| Post town | Manchester |
| Postcode | M3 5GS |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLD3 Greater Manchester |
| ITL 3 | TLD34 Greater Manchester South West |
| Local authority | Salford |
| Electoral ward | Ordsall |
| Westminster constituency | Salford |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 2 |
| Supplier names | DNANEXUS; MICROSOFT |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 48444100 - Billing system
- 72222300 - Information technology services

## Release History

- 4 Oct 2022 at 11:19 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027822-2022
- 22 Mar 2022 at 16:58 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007787-2022
- 18 Mar 2022 at 16:55 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007474-2022
- 16 Mar 2022 at 17:55 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007249-2022
- 15 Mar 2022 at 18:14 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007058-2022
- 8 Mar 2022 at 14:09 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006312-2022
- 4 Mar 2022 at 16:32 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006084-2022
- 17 Dec 2021 at 15:11 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031637-2021

## Notice URLs

- https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/
- https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CITRERB-18-March-ZIP.zip
- https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OFH-CITRERB-Qs.zip
- https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OFH-CITRERB.zip

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