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Digital Research Infrastructure
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £8,300,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 10 Dec 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The University of Exeter is initiating this Early Market Engagement (EME) to inform the development of its Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI), a transformative programme that will underpin the University’s future research and innovation capability. This engagement seeks to: Understand the current market landscape, emerging technologies, and service models relevant to Research Computing, HPC, AI, data storage, and research data management. Explore innovative partnership and delivery models to help realise Exeter’s long-term digital research vision. Identify opportunities to enhance sustainability, energy efficiency, security, and interoperability across digital research systems. Gather insights to inform technical specifications, procurement strategy, and the DRI roadmap ahead of formal tender activity in 2026.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 30210000
- 30211100
- 72317000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 10 Dec 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 10 December 2025.
Release 081584-2025
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
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07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f2ec
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Fri 3 Apr 2026, 21:25 BST
- Read at
- Tue 20 Oct 2026, 17:38 BST
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