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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Royal Hospital Chelsea

Virtual Environment Infrastructure

ValueValue not published
Awarded21 Apr 2026
Published21 May 2026
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
SOFTCAT PLC
Award date21 Apr 2026

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
david.williams@chelsea-pensioners.org.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

The Royal Hospital Chelsea is looking to upgrade/change the current virtual environment.

The current virtual environment is hosted on a VMWare platform by 3 Host (cluster), hosting a total of 27 servers and two Non-federated SAN.

Though we are happy with VMWare as a solution, constant changes on price for licenses and difficult access to support has made us want to look for alternative solutions, like Nutanix, that can provide scalability, easy management, great security, fault tolerance, good analytics across the environment.

We are requesting from the supplier to provide the Royal Hospital Chelsea with a quote for VMWare, Nutanix and another alternative solution.

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Though we are happy with VMWare as

Though we are happy with VMWare as a solution, constant changes on price for licenses and difficult access to support has made us want to look for alternative solutions, like Nutanix, that can provide scalability, easy management, great security, fault tolerance, good analytics across the environment.

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We are requesting from the supplier

We are requesting from the supplier to provide the Royal Hospital Chelsea with a quote for VMWare, Nutanix and another alternative solution.

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OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05faac
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
046762-2026
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