Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 4 Jun 2025, 11:35 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Archive Data Repository · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Manchester City Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 29 Sept 2027 · starts 30 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council is using the e-business portal known as the Chest. Participants of the preliminary market engagement exercise will need to register their details at the following link www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ . Once registered, participants will be emailed a log-in and password which will allow them to gain access to the documentation relating to this exercise

Manchester City Council intends to procure a cloud-based, corporate data archive repository into which data from a variety of legacy systems (and both structured and unstructured datasets) will be transferred, stored and managed in line with relevant retention policies.

The Council intends to procure a) a data archive repository solution (including the setup, licensing, support and maintenance services) and b) a professional services partner to lead the migration of datasets to the solution.

Suppliers can choose to engage with the Council in relation to either or both procurements.

For descriptions of each procurement, and the requirements that relate to each procurement, please see 'Data Repository Brief' and 'Archive Data Repository Requirements - Market Testing.xlsx' worksheet. on the E-Procurement platform, Chest.

CPV: Computer audit consultancy and hardware consultancy services · Database-management system

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrs

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
4 Jun 2025, 11:35 BST
Last source update
4 Jun 2025, 11:35 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-029804
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Computer audit consultancy and hardware consultancy servicesDatabase-management system
Delivery area
North West (UKD33)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052c39 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 Jun 2025 → 30 Sept 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    4 Jun 2025, 11:35 BST
  2. Market engagement
    12 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST

    The Council is using the e-business portal known as the Chest. Participants will need to register their details at the following link www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ . Once registered, participants will be emailed a log-in and password which will allow them to gain access to the documentation relating to this market engagement exercise.

    As part of the preliminary market engagement, the Council wish for prospective suppliers to provide suitable demonstrations and presentations to provide further clarity on the available services. The Council will expect the supplier to present details of the services that can be provided and, in addition, system demonstrations for Procurement 1.

    In order to request to participate, Suppliers will need to electronically submit their completed Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire via the on-line portal by 11am on 12th June 2025 as referred to in the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation.

    The link to the CHES T advert can be found here: procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

  3. Contract starts392 days ago
    30 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Jun 2025, 11:35 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Manchester City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLNV-8798-LDMP Town Hall Extension, Manchester, North West, M60 2LAContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure