ICT Managed Service
What the buyer wrote
North Star Housing Group is seeking to appoint a Managed Service Partner (MSP) to provide and support core ICT infrastructure and networks. North Star's current managed service contract terminates in mid-February 2026 and its architecture was designed around a legacy co-location data centre and MPLS network design. Over recent years, North Star has adopted a "Cloud First" strategy for the delivery of its ICT services and many of its legacy systems are now delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. A small number of applications remain to be hosted by the appointed MSP, and these will potentially further reduce during the contract term as further hosted applications are replaced by …
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- ICT Managed Service
- How they are buying
- Advertised, then negotiatedThe buyer talked terms with bidders rather than taking fixed offers.
- Type
- services
- Work starts
- 15 Feb 2026
- Work ends
- 15 Feb 2029
- Where
- in Yorkshire and The Humber, in the North East
Who the buyer named
Kerry Hunter was the named contact on this notice. Questions closed on 19 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST.