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 has now responded to all questions and clarifications raised by bidders. These can be found at:
https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OFH-CITRERB-Qs.zip
Interested parties may need to clear their browser's cache before opening this link, or use a browser in private / 'incognito' mode, to ensure a previous cached version isn't opened.
The following updated versions of documents have been shared with bidders today (Friday 18th March 2022). These updates are based on Our Future Health's responses to questions and clarifications raised by bidders:
Our Future Health - Lot 1 Award Questionnaire - VERSION 2 (18 March 2022)
Our Future Health - Lot 2 Award Questionnaire - VERSION 2 (18 March 2022)
Our Future Health - Lot 3 Award Questionnaire - VERSION 2 (18 March 2022)
Our Future Health - Lot 2 TRE Demonstration Instructions - VERSION 2 (18 March 2022)
These updated procurement documents replace their previous versions, and (along with the remaining original versions of documents) are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at:
https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CITRERB-18-March-ZIP.zip
Bidders should therefore no longer refer to the Zip file of procurement documents that was linked to from within the Contract Notice, which was published on 4th March 2022.
Interested parties are advised to use the 'Watch this notice' feature in the Find a Tender Service for the originally published Contract Notice, to ensure they receive any further updates before the time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate, as stated in Section IV.2.2 of the Contract Notice.