UK energy company Northern Powergrid has put out a £455m ($607.2m) tender for an “Information Systems Services Framework Agreement.”
The agreement is divided into ten lots, and includes a £22.37m ($29.85m) “infrastructure” contract for data center services.
The tender was published this month. The contract is set to run from May 2026 to April 2029, with a possible extension to April 2034.
The contract’s ten lots, in order, are: infrastructure operations, application operations, end user computing, cyber operations, service integration, Oracle, technical services, transformation services, platform engineering, and testing services.
According to the tender, the first six lots are considered “business as usual,” while the latter are to help Northern Powergrid respond to the “evolving industry.”
The infrastructure operations contract includes data center services, data center networking, infrastructure security services, and business continuity.
The Oracle lot is valued at £13.73m ($18.32m) and covers application support, annual upgrades, vulnerability management, and platform/cloud management.
The largest lot is for “transformation services,” making up £360.9m ($481.64m) and includes project delivery services, technical delivery services, system integration, and data/business analysis.
The tender is for an unlimited number of suppliers and applicants have until 21 November to submit.
Northern Powergrid provides power in the UK to more than 8 million people across the North East, Yorkshire, and northern Lincolnshire. The company previously expressed plans to migrate its workloads to the cloud, while retaining critical infrastructure within its data centers.
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