Affinity Water has extended the tender deadline for a cloud hosting services contract by almost a month.
The contract, which is being tendered in three separate Lots, covers the provision of a range of hosting services – including all or some cloud hosted data centre services, colocation data centre services and associated disaster recovery services.
The water company is looking to appoint up to five suppliers to the framework agreement, which will run for up to eight years.
Original deadline for receipt of tenders or requests to participate was 23rd May – this has now been extended to 17th June 2016.
Click here to access the tender documentation.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
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Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
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