Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
OUR FUTURE HEALTH
6 Stanley Street
SALFORD
M35GS
Contact
CURSHAW Ltd, acting on behalf of Our Future Health
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract
Reference number
OFH-CITRERB-20220303
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 72222300 - Information technology services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Our Future Health aims to be the UK's largest ever health research programme. It is designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection and treatment of diseases.
Our Future Health aims to procure:
- secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support our health research programme
- a trusted research environment (TRE) to enable registered and approved researchers to access and use data within a secure environment
- a partner to manage the billing of cloud compute and storage costs for researchers using the TRE
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2022/S 000-006084
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.2) Other additional information
Our Future Health will publish responses to questions and clarifications raised, at this location:
https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OFH-CITRERB-Qs.zip
Interested parties are advised to check this link on a daily basis, before the time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate, as stated in Section IV.2.2 of the Contract Notice.
Our Future Health would like to draw bidders' specific attention to question / clarification reference #35, which states:
"Our Future Health will extend the deadline for submission of questions and clarifications to no later than 17:00 UK time on Wednesday 16th March 2022. Final responses to questions and clarifications from Our Future Health remains the same as stated in the ITT; Friday 18th March 2022."