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ClosedStage · planning

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

AIRR Expansion AI Cloud Compute

IT ServicesCPV 72315000
Value£214.4m
Deadline30 Nov 2025
Published25 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 25 Sept 2025ClosedCloses 30 Nov 2025
Who to contact
commercialexcellence@ics.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£214.4mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£231.6m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

This notice is to alert the market that the Authority, subject to approvals, has an upcoming requirement, to work with the following: A cloud provider - contracted to deliver scalable, state-of-the-art AI compute, delivered through a flexible cloud service.

This capability will expand the capacity of the UK AI Research Resource, for use by the UK research and AI community.

This will consist of a core reserved capacity, with the option to scale up for extra capacity if required.

Full details on the requirement and how to participate will be provided at the Tender Notice publish date.

The authority reserves the right to revise this planned procurement notice to make further information available.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Contracted to deliver scalable, state-of-the-art AI compute

contracted to deliver scalable, state-of-the-art AI compute, delivered through a flexible cloud service.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a227
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
059707-2025
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