Disaster Recovery Tenders and Contracts

A disaster recovery tender covers backup infrastructure, DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service) solutions, and cloud-tenancy recovery configuration bought to restore IT systems after a failure. Most notices bundle it inside a wider IT infrastructure, cloud migration or managed-service contract rather than tendering it alone.

Stotles brings together disaster recovery tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Backup licences and recovery services are often called off from G-Cloud and technology frameworks, or bought as one line inside a managed IT contract.

Disaster recovery tenders are scored on recovery time and recovery point objectives, immutability and ransomware protection, security, testing and support, and whole-life cost. Many renewals stay with the incumbent product, so new entrants often win at a platform replacement.

Recovery services hold copies of personal data, so they must comply with UK data protection law, and buyers often expect Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Rarely. Most disaster recovery work is one line item inside a larger IT infrastructure, hosting or managed-service contract. A council upgrading its cloud recovery position, for instance, is more likely to fold that into an existing IT support call-off than run a dedicated procurement.

Councils and other public bodies with an established IT estate are the main buyers, usually adding or upgrading disaster recovery as part of a wider infrastructure refresh. A single named 'disaster recovery' award is uncommon; most of this work sits inside a broader IT services contract.

Read cyber resilience and digital strategies, backup licence renewal dates, data centre and hosting contract expiry dates and early market engagement notices, which show disaster recovery work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Disaster recovery notices carry 72251000 (Disaster recovery services), alongside broader codes such as 48000000 (Software package and information systems) for backup and cyber resilience products.