Official UK procurement notice
Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR)
Authority: Midland Heart (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMidland Heart require a solution to our current Back Up and Disaster Recovery provisions. The vision is for Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) that will provide Midland Heart with supported managed services, scalability, predicable costs and the flexibility to allow self-control where necessary for low-risk recovery, testing and DR invocation authorisation. Midland Heart requires an updated service that aligns with cloud-native principles, zero trust networking and evolving enterprise integration patterns.
We wish to work with suppliers to understand the possibilities available to us to meet these requirements and achieve our business goals.
CPV: Disaster recovery services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 May 2025, 09:17 BST
- Last source update
- 9 May 2025, 09:17 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-019926- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050f58Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 May 2025 → 1 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published9 May 2025, 09:17 BST
- Market engagement9 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
Midland Heart will invite a number of suppliers to discuss our requirements in more detail and the options available to us. This discussion will take place initially with all interested parties via teams calls on 2nd June 2025 and 12th June 2025 to outline our requirements and hold initial introductions. Following the sessions we will invite suppliers to complete a questionnaire detailing their experience in the sector and implementing similar solutions. Midland Heart will then select a number of suppliers from those that complete the questionnaire to hold further in depth discussions and help refine our specification.
To submit an expression of interest in this opportunity and pre market engagement please email [email protected]
- Tender notice expected15 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts299 days ago1 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 May 2025, 09:17 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender