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title: "RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme"
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# RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/rfi-data-centre-transformation-rationalisation-programme-ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Southern Water Services Limited: "RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £0. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Southern Water Services Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/southern-water-services-limited-GB-PPON-PBJQ-2231-ZRPG)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £0 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/rfi-data-centre-transformation-rationalisation-programme-ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c`

## 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/rfi-data-centre-transformation-rationalisation-programme-ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c#tl-md)

## 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 72000000

- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2027 to 30/09/2031

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F084383-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-09-07T11:57:36.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T06:38:53.210Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c