Pura Commercial & Contract Radar

GB-LINCOLN: 475 - Networking Compute Storage and Infrastructure

UNKNOWN

What happened?

Award notice from University of Lincoln. Relevance is supported by notice evidence.

Facts

{
  "award_values": [
    {
      "amount": 8000000,
      "currency": "GBP"
    }
  ],
  "buyer": "University of Lincoln",
  "buyer_reference": "BIP1068570187",
  "contact_email": "procurement@lincoln.ac.uk",
  "contact_name": "Vasos Melides",
  "contact_restrictions": [],
  "contacts": [
    {
      "email": "procurement@lincoln.ac.uk",
      "name": "Vasos Melides",
      "organisation": "University of Lincoln",
      "telephone": "01522882000"
    }
  ],
  "contract_terms": [
    {
      "endDate": "2030-10-05T23:59:59+01:00",
      "startDate": "2026-10-06T00:00:00+01:00"
    }
  ],
  "cpv": [
    {
      "description": "IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support",
      "id": "72000000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    },
    {
      "description": "Networks",
      "id": "32400000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    },
    {
      "description": "Software package and information systems",
      "id": "48000000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    },
    {
      "description": "Repair, maintenance and associated services related to personal computers, office equipment, telecommunications and audio-visual equipment",
      "id": "50300000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    },
    {
      "description": "Installation services (except software)",
      "id": "51000000",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    }
  ],
  "currency": "GBP",
  "days_to_deadline": -127,
  "deadline": "2026-07-02T00:00:00+01:00",
  "deadline_conflict": false,
  "deadline_kind": "TENDER",
  "deadline_narrative": "",
  "deadline_structured": "2026-07-02T00:00:00+01:00",
  "deadline_time_unpublished": false,
  "demo_evidence": [],
  "direct_contact_evidence": [],
  "engagement_route": "",
  "estimated_value": 8000000,
  "expansion_scope": "Complete official OCDS release; linked restricted documents require separate verification.",
  "extensions": [],
  "fully_expanded": true,
  "geographic_scope": [
    [
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "East Midlands"
      }
    ]
  ],
  "hidden_opportunity": true,
  "historical_engagement_evidence": "",
  "incumbent_evidence": [],
  "linked_documents": [],
  "lot_count": 0,
  "lot_scope": [],
  "meeting_evidence": [],
  "notice_type": "AWARD",
  "procurement_method": "Not specified",
  "procurement_status": "complete",
  "publication_date": "2026-10-14T12:30:04+01:00",
  "published_corrections": [],
  "published_notice_types": [],
  "published_requirement": "This contract is for all the supplies and associated services regarding the University of Lincolns 'Networking, Storage, Compute, Back-Up and Infrastructure'. This was awarded via the CCS's TePAS2 framework, under lot 6. Please see 'Other Information' for further details. \r\n      \r\n      This contract provides the University of Lincoln with a strategic technology partner for the delivery of end-to-end digital infrastructure solutions across its networking, compute, storage, and backup environments. The scope includes vendor-agnostic solution design, hardware and software procurement, deployment, maintenance, support services, lifecycle management, and professional consultancy to support the University's operational, teaching, research, and business requirements.\r\n      \r\n      The appointed supplier will support and maintain the existing infrastructure estate while enabling future technology development through specialist technical expertise, solution architecture, project delivery, and innovation, ensuring a secure, resilient, scalable, and value-for-money digital infrastructure across the University.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: This was awarded via Lot 6 (education technology) of the CCS's (Crown Commercial Services) TePAS2 (Technology Products and Associated Services) framework. Suppliers were invited to express and interest and if interested they were invited to participate in a market engagement exercise.  All those that showed an interest were invited to participate in the further competition.",
  "questionnaire_evidence": [
    "Suppliers were invited to express and interest and if interested they were invited to participate in a market engagement exercise."
  ],
  "reference": "4e0c54a2-7a1b-402f-b960-fd1293689c2a-917833",
  "registration_evidence": [],
  "relevance_evidence": {
    "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
      "software development"
    ]
  },
  "requirement_items": "",
  "selection_requirements": [],
  "sme_suitability": [
    {
      "sme": false,
      "vcse": false
    }
  ],
  "submission_method": "UNKNOWN",
  "value_excluding_vat": null,
  "value_including_vat": null,
  "value_minimum": null,
  "value_scope": "TOTAL_NOTICE_NOT_PURA_ADDRESSABLE",
  "vat_basis": "VAT basis not explicit in release"
}

Commercial inferences

[
  {
    "basis": {
      "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
        "software development"
      ]
    },
    "type": "HIDDEN_ADDRESSABLE_ELEMENT"
  }
]

Unknowns

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Possible services

[
  {
    "confidence": "MEDIUM",
    "rationale": "software development",
    "service": "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY"
  }
]

Provenance

{
  "licence": "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "ocid": "ocds-b5fd17-0c0ac6e7-ec4e-4448-8d43-5109a0302411",
  "release_id": "4e0c54a2-7a1b-402f-b960-fd1293689c2a-917833"
}

Related signals

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Canonical source