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# Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cloud-infrastructure-trusted-research-environment-and-researcher-billing-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-03030c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** OUR FUTURE HEALTH: "Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 3 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 28 Mar 2022, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [OUR FUTURE HEALTH](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/our-future-health-akeso-co-acting-on-behalf-of-coh-12212468)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 28 March 2022 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 3
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Billing system, Information technology services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,990,000 (exc. VAT, 2 contracts)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cloud-infrastructure-trusted-research-environment-and-researcher-billing-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-03030c#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03030c`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cloud-infrastructure-trusted-research-environment-and-researcher-billing-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-03030c#tl-md)

## 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

## Lots (3)
### Lot 1: Cloud infrastructure
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 72222300
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Our Future Health aims to procure secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support a health research programme. The selected supplier will be one of our most important technology partners as we build and scale our systems. The cloud infrast...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Trusted research environment
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 72222300
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Our Future Health is planning to procure a trusted research environment (TRE) to enable registered researchers to access and use data within a single secure environment to conduct approved research studies. The success of Our Future Health rests on t...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 3: Researcher billing
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 48444100, 72222300
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** In order to provide a scalable and flexible service, where researchers can use the cloud resources that they need, we anticipate a system where researchers pay for their own cloud storage and compute within their TRE workspace. We are therefore plann...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (3)
- **Award:** Cloud infrastructure (active)
  - Award id: `027822-2022-1`
  - Supplier(s): **MICROSOFT LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-185613`

- **Award:** Trusted research environment (active)
  - Award id: `027822-2022-2`
  - Supplier(s): **DNAnexus Inc.**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-170500`
  - Value: £1,970,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Researcher billing (active)
  - Award id: `027822-2022-3`
  - Supplier(s): **DNAnexus Inc.**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-170500`
  - Value: £20,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (3)
- **Contract:** Cloud infrastructure (active)

  - Signed Date: 01/09/2022

- **Contract:** Trusted research environment (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,970,000
  - Signed Date: 01/09/2022

- **Contract:** Researcher billing (active)
  - Signed Value: £20,000
  - Signed Date: 01/09/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F027822-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-10-04T11:19:34.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T22:14:11.819Z
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