Southern Water has issued a Request For Information seeking supply chain engagement on its proposed data centre transformation and rationalisation programme.
The water company is developing a programme to transform and rationalise its data centre estate. The RFI is a preliminary market engagement exercise 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.
Current estimated start and end contract dates are 1 October 2027 to 30 September 2031.
The utility is inviting interested parties to respond via Southern Water's Sourcing Portal (Coupa) - the engagement deadline is 23 September 2026
Click here to access the portal
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