Award of Datacentre Hosting and Migration Services

Tender description

NRS maintains a range of critical business services running on NRS-owned hardware colocated in two 3rd party data centres, with virtual servers providing file storage, business applications, websites and data platforms. While the long-term objective is to move the majority of these services to cloud, this specification focuses on ensuring continuity of service for data centre services and workloads over the next seven years.National Records of Scotland (NRS) is seeking to procure a data centre hosting service in Scotland. The current data centre hosting contract with sites in Edinburgh and Newcastle expires in March 2027.Given the March 2027 deadline, NRS are primarily looking to lift-and-shift the current hardware colocated at DC1 (Edinburgh) and DC2 (Newcastle) and relocate it to new data centres provided under this contract, supported by technical resource to assist with migration and re-configuration activities and with on-site support thereafter.However, we also want to use this contract as an opportunity to consider any potential optimisation or innovative approaches. The driver for this would be to rationalise the current specification in order to realise efficiencies, or better align with our strategic direction, including route to cloud. Any such proposals should take into consideration the overall contract timescale and individual technology component lifespans in terms of feasibility.Full specification found in tender documents