Preliminary market engagement notice085838-2026
Hybrid Datacentre Managed Service
- Market engagement closes
- Published10 Sep 2026
- Estimated value
- Value not published
- Contract term
- 1 Aug 2027 to 30 Jul 2032 (5 years)
- Lots
- Not divided into lots
- Categories
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- Regions
- North East
- North West
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- East Midlands
- West Midlands
- East of England
- London
- South East
- South West
The buyer’s description
“Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), as the contracting authority for Greater Manchester Police, are looking for a supplier who can provide a managed service across its on-premise and cloud hosted infrastructure. GMP operate a mixed estate due to the nature of some of the legacy systems not necessarily being cloud native or the support requirements are 24x7 at a 99.99999% availability level. Our physical datacentres are currently in two locations, Claytonbrook in Manchester and Corsham in Bristol. The cloud based environment is a private Azure cloud service. Our on-premise server estate is managed by Telefonica and our cloud service by ANS. Our existing service management tool is Alemba.”