Procurement

RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme

  • Southern Water Services Limited

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c

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.

Notices

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

Notice identifier
2026/S 000-084383
Published
7 September 2026, 12:57pm

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

Notice identifier
2026/S 000-082926
Published
2 September 2026, 9:58am