Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-10-22
Buyer: The University of Manchester
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 50000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-11-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University is seeking to establish a framework to allow procurement of cloud-enabled IT services including, but not limited to, cloud hosting, cloud compute services, cloud network services, cloud storage services, other cloud technologies, marketplaces for PaaS and SaaS services and cloud-related consulting services such as training, professional services and managed services as well as technical support.
The University has a number of current projects which are built around Microsoft’s Azure hosting service. The costs to move these to another platform is high and so the desired business outcome is to continue, for now at least, with the current platform and put in place a procurement route for the services which allows for consolidated and managed billing and which is within the 2015 Procurement Regulations.
As a result, the University is looking for a reseller which can provide the spectrum of Microsoft cloud-based services, at prices which allow the University to get best value for money (‘VfM’) for both the current and future, potential, projects.
The University is also keen to work with a supplier which can add value, not just in minimising costs, but also by providing other management and reporting services which could be used to ensure best VfM for the University in the future.
The University intends to invite the candidates to participate in the ITT on the basis of the ranking of candidates at SQ stage, and provided they all meet any minimum standards of qualification, at which the criteria referred to in Regulation 65 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, (as amended) will be assessed and marked.
In the event that candidates' scores are tied resulting in the maximum number to be shortlisted being exceeded, a tiebreaker exercise will be conducted by the University. Further information is available in the procurement documentation.
The figures given are an estimate only of the total value of the project and should not be taken as a guarantee of income.
The University has a number of current projects which are built around AWS’s hosting service. The costs to move these to another platform is high and so the desired business outcome is to continue, for now at least, with the current platform and put in place a procurement route for the services which allows for consolidated and managed billing and which is within the 2015 Procurement Regulations.
As a result, the University is looking for a reseller which can provide the spectrum of AWS cloud-based services, at prices which allow the University to get best VfM for both the current and future, potential, projects.
The University is also keen to work with a supplier which can add value, not just in minimising costs, but also by providing other management and reporting services which could be used to ensure best VfM for the University in the future.
The University intends to invite the candidates to participate in the ITT on the basis of the ranking of candidates at SQ stage, and provided they all meet any minimum standards of qualification, at which the criteria referred to in Regulation 65 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, (as amended) will be assessed and marked.
In the event that candidates' scores are tied resulting in the maximum number to be shortlisted being exceeded, a tiebreaker exercise will be conducted by the University. Further information is available in the procurement documentation.
The figures given are an estimate only of the total value of the project and should not be taken as a guarantee of income.
The University has a number of current projects, largely in research, which are built around Google’s Cloud hosting service. The costs to move these to another platform is high and so the desired business outcome is to continue, for now at least, with the current platform and put in place a procurement route for the services which allows for consolidated and managed billing and which is within the 2015 Procurement Regulations.
As a result, the University is looking for a reseller which can provide the spectrum of Google Cloud’s cloud-based services, at prices which allow the University to get best VfM for both the current and future, potential, projects.


Award value: 50000000