Colocation datacentre facility to host services for CU Group
What the buyer wrote
Negotiated without a prior call for competition The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights Explanation: AQL is our primary datacentre, it would be significant business risk to rush into a plan to relocate the primary datacentre and network communication links. We decided to continue our existing relationship with AQL for the stability of datacentre services due to the current financial position of the university group and the pressures facing the education sector. Technology is also changing at a rapid pace which makes it difficult to accurately predict…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Colocation datacentre facility to host services for CU Group
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Where
- in the West Midlands
- Kind of work
- Software development
Who the buyer named
Thomas Hasson was the named contact on this notice.