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Southern Water Services Limited
RFI - Data Centre Transformation & Rationalisation Programme
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 7 Sep 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 2 Sep 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 2 September 2026.
Release 082926-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 7 Sep 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 7 September 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 084383-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The source does not state a usable value.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06f01c
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Sun 13 Sep 2026, 08:12 BST
- Read at
- Thu 29 Oct 2026, 06:07 GMT
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