RFP QuestBeta
ClosedStage · preprocurement

Liverpool City Council

Soft Market Test - Data Centre Hosting

IT ServicesCPV 72222300
ValueValue not published
Deadline26 Feb 2021
Published18 Feb 2021
RegionNorth West
Timeline
Published 18 Feb 2021ClosedCloses 26 Feb 2021
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The brief

To help define and develop our Procurement Strategy and support in the development of our service specification, Liverpool City Council are engaging with potential data centre service providers prior to the release of any official tender document.

The aim of this Soft Market Testing exercise is to notify the market of our future plans and to gauge interest in this opportunity with data centre providers.

This will support and provide Liverpool City Council with a transparent and a compliant route to market that delivers against the key objectives of this project.

Once we have engaged with the market and understand the services available a procurement exercise will be conducted.

Please review the Soft Market Testing document and complete a brief questionnaire via ProContract.

Your company will need to register on ProContract (Due North) to be able to receive the opportunity.

The documents will only be available on ProContract (available via the Due North site).

Once you have registered you will need to go to the "my opportunities" section on the home page of ProContract and follow the instructions as a supplier to enable you to return your submission.

To register your organisation on Procontract click on the following link https://procontract.due-north.com/register, go to suppliers' area and click on "register free".

Closing Date for response is 2pm Friday 26th February 2021.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To help define and develop our Procurement

To help define and develop our Procurement Strategy and support in the development of our service specification, Liverpool City Council are engaging with potential data centre service providers prior to the release of any official tender document.

02

This will support and provide Liverpool City

This will support and provide Liverpool City Council with a transparent and a compliant route to market that delivers against the key objectives of this project.

03

Your company will need to register on

Your company will need to register on ProContract (Due North) to be able to receive the opportunity.

04

Once you have registered you will need

Once you have registered you will need to go to the "my opportunities" section on the home page of ProContract and follow the instructions as a supplier to enable you to return your submission.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ebe73d35-bc2f-487c-b800-ad6630067d99
Stage
preprocurement · Closed
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
LPOOL001-DN527801-13256032
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