Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract

Descriptions

Our Future Health aims to procure secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support a health research programme. The selected supplier will be one of our most important technology partners as we build and scale our systems. The cloud infrastructure will underpin web sites and apps used by our participants, a data store and data processing systems, a trusted research environment (TRE) and associated systems used by researchers from around the world, and underlying systems to operate and monitor the programme., The selected supplier will provide UK hosting for secure public cloud infrastructure with a comprehensive set of standard compute, storage and infrastructure services. We are interested to work with cloud providers that have good availability of TRE providers already working within their systems., Estimated value excluding VAT: between £3m and £6.5m over 3 years; £20m over 5 years, We expect costs to increase as participant numbers increase. Total projected costs during years 1-3 of the contractual arrangement would be between £3m and £6.5m and over 5 years we expect a range of £9m - £21m. We will not be able to predict a narrower range until we have more clarity during 2022 about which services will be hosted in our cloud and which with suppliers, as well as more detailed technical and data architecture that will happen following this procurement. Note that these costs include only Our Future Health usage of our cloud, not that of the researchers using the TRE billed separated by the Lot 3 supplier. The total cloud expenditure will therefore be considerably greater than the value of our contract.