Preliminary market engagement notice084383-2026
RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme
- Market engagement closes
- Published7 Sep 2026
- Estimated value
- Value not published
- Contract term
- 1 Oct 2027 to 30 Sep 2031 (4 years)
- Lots
- Not divided into lots
- Categories
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- Regions
- South East
The buyer’s description
“Southern Water is developing a programme to transform and rationalise its data centre estate. This Request for Information (RFI) is a preliminary market engagement exercise under the Procurement Act 2023, intended to inform and shape the emerging vision ahead of any procurement. Through it, Southern Water is seeking to:
• Understand the capability, capacity and appetite of the market to deliver a programme of this nature;
• Test the feasibility and realism of the emerging vision, and in particular the delivery timescale;
• Gather delivery approaches, technical options, innovations, case studies and indicative commercial models;
• Understand how the market would best package (Lot) the requirement; and
• Inform Southern Water's business case, sourcing strategy and eventual procurement approach.”