Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c1e-087a-7042-b967-22692fe5a02b/tc933-provision-of-data-centre-facilities-and-migration-partner awarded GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # TC933 - Provision of Data Centre Facilities and Migration Partner [Manchester City Council](https://tendernation.io/buyers/manchester-city-council) Estimated value £866,952 Published 31 Jul 2017 Deadline Closed 31 Aug 2017 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. - Open procedure Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender Manchester City Council's Data Centre Strategy defines the migration from the existing Council-owned single data centre to two new co-location facilities providing a robust and resilient disaster recovery solution to meet tight business RPO and RTO across a range of services and applications. The Council requires two industry leading co-location data centre facilities in the Manchester area to host a total of twenty racks split across both locations for an initial three year period. In addition, the successful supplier will provide migration services to assist the Council moving out of the existing data centre. The Council has some in house skills to migrate systems from the existing data centre to the two new data centres. These resources are limited in number and have existing commitments to business as usual service provision. Professional services are therefore required to bolster the Council's migration team - this work will include physical hardware migrations, virtual machine migrations and associated networking, operating system and application configuration changes. A new network infrastructure will be installed in the two new data centres - the design, supply, implementation and configuration of this network infrastructure is outside of the scope of this tender. The Council's existing data centre is approximately 6 years old and includes industry standard data centre infrastructure of a good quality standard - UPS, generators, electrical switchgear, air conditioning and rack units. Once migrations to the new data centres are complete the Council wishes to dispose of this equipment in the most economically advantageous manner and decommission the data centre in readiness for handing back the facility to the landlord. Read full description ## CPV classification Information systems and servers Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/1e3ea098-18c9-44a6-9ce2-b372733db089) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. [Track tenders free](https://tendernation.io/register) [Buyer profile Manchester City Council: past awards and live tenders](https://tendernation.io/buyers/manchester-city-council) [Sector More Software packages & information systems tenders](https://tendernation.io/sectors/software-information-systems) ## More tenders like this [Servers – Dostawa serwerów do klastra wirtualizacyjnego · Politechnika Rzeszowska · 4 days left · 23 Oct 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-646b-7264-9081-ac0da3de596f/poland-servers-dostawa-serwerow-do-klastra-wirtualizacyjnego) [Software package and information systems – AutoDesk Lizenzen · Hamburger Energienetze GmbH · 25 days left · 13 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-63e1-72f3-8854-0907e37f21fa/germany-software-package-and-information-systems-autodesk-lizenzen) [Servers – Ausschreibung CITRIX Wartungsverlängerung ab 2027 · Hannoversche Informationstechnologien AöR / hannIT · 4 days left · 23 Oct 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-615c-713f-93e6-da09a76b2c98/germany-servers-ausschreibung-citrix-wartungsverlangerung-ab-2027) [Software package and information systems – Suministro y mantenimiento de licencias de la plataforma de gestión deportiva para el Ayuntamiento de Las Rozas de Madrid (3 lotes). · Junta de Gobierno del Ayuntamiento Las Rozas · 30 days left · 18 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-7b6a-70d3-9b11-bf3cb20e3687/spain-software-package-and-information-systems-suministro-y-mantenimiento-de) [Software package and information systems – System wykrywania anomalii w ruchu SMTP w oparciu o Self-Learning AI · Narodowy Bank Polski · 31 days left · 19 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-6291-7294-b080-d589aa9cf0c0/poland-software-package-and-information-systems-system-wykrywania-anomalii-w) [Medical software package – eHealth pro Masarykův onkologický ústav · Masarykův onkologický ústav · 3 days left · 22 Oct 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-6d62-73ac-ba27-c98f8437d1bb/czechia-medical-software-package-ehealth-pro-masarykuv-onkologicky-ustav)