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OpenStage · planning

University of Exeter

Digital Research Infrastructure

IT ServicesCPV 30210000
Value£8.3m
Deadline
Published10 Dec 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Simon Denton
s.denton@exeter.ac.uk
+44 1392661000

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£8.3mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£9.0m

This is a large award for Office & Computing Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 8,857 valued Office & Computing Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

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.

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OCID
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Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
081584-2025
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