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RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme

Southern Water Services Limited · Private utility

In brief

Southern Water Services Limited has announced plans to buy IT and software work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.

The notice does not state a value.

The contract runs for 4 years, starting 1 October 2027.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

Can I win this?

Competition

Usually high: a median of 6 bids per contract for IT and software contracts in this region (from 147 awards in the last 12 months).

What the notice says

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.

How to bid

  1. Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
  2. Register your organisation on the Central Digital Platform (through Find a Tender) if you have not already. Suppliers need to be registered to take part in procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
  3. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 082926-2026
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 084383-2026

About the buyer

Southern Water Services LimitedLast 12 months

Procurements

51

Awards

19

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From notice 082926-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 2 September 2026, last updated 7 September 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.