Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-20
Buyer: Southern Water Services Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 30236000 | 30237110 | 32400000 | 32421000 | 44316400
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-11-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This notice relates to the provision of colocated Data Centre facilities and the related services (energy, connectivity and physical security) necessary to house and provide an operating environment for physical computing infrastructure from 2 separate locations, based on minimum capabilities. Southern Water are seeking to move from their existing data centre into these 2 colocated facilities.
The envisaged term of the Colocation facilities contract is to run for an initial term of 5 years, with an option to extend by a further period, or periods, up to 10 years (15 years total).
A separate opportunity and tender will be run for the provision of the associated infrastructure (Hyper-Converged) solution and associate services, which are to be installed within the colocation facilities (Prj_976).
The provision of colocated Data Centre facilities and the related services (energy, connectivity and physical security) necessary to house and provide an operating environment for physical computing infrastructure from 2 separate locations, based on minimum supplier capabilities. Southern Water are seeking to move from their existing data centre into these 2 collocated facilities.
— 2 separate tier 3 data centre premises, within 100 miles of Southern Water’s Head Office location and capable of operating on an active: active basis,
— an energy efficient data centre environment, including provision of power, heating and cooling (including power to the racking),
— mobilisation of the collocation offering, including: provisioning of data centre space and racking, power connectivity, network connectivity and availability of onsite support,
— secure (caged) data centre space, fully fitted with high density racking (26 racks split over 2 facilities with a minimum of 12 at each facility),
— effective network connectivity between the 2 data centres, including: interconnecting network fibre, internet connectivity; and, additional network services (such as AWS/Azure),
— the ability for Southern Water to scale its requirements by taking on additional data centre space in the future, as required.
Service providers should review the information provided within the PQQ and ITT (provided at the PQQ stage for information only) to ensure that they understand the full scope of the tender, and have the capability to deliver the required services.
The envisaged term of the colocation facilities contract is to run for an initial term of 5 years, with an option to extend by a further period, or periods, up to 10 years (15 years total).
A separate opportunity and tender will be run for the provision of the associated infrastructure (Hyper-Converged) solution and associate services, which are to be installed within the collocation facilities (Prj_976).
The envisaged term of the Colocation Facilities contract is to run for an initial term of 5 years, with an option to extend by a further period, or periods, up to 10 years (15 years total).
PQQ response from service providers is subject to evaluation, where a score will be applied to set questions. Suppliers will be ranked based on this score, and 5 suppliers will be invited to tender.

Eligibility requirements: As described in the procurement documents.

Award value: 3000000