Natural History Museum - Bulk Storage Solution
Buyer: Natural History Museum
- Published
- 9 December 2025
- Estimated value
- £0
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 081263-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f247
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 72300000Data services
- 72317000Data storage services
Description
The Natural History Museum ("NHM") intends to initiate a procurement exercise in 2026 for a modern, cloud-aligned Bulk Data Storage and Lifecycle Management Solution to deliver scalable capacity that meets growing research demand and aligns with the Museum's digital transformation strategy. The solution is anticipated to be the primary bulk storage infrastructure supporting over 300 scientists across multiple research domains including CT scanning, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and imaging analysis. We envisage (based on the museums current cloud strategy) , a hybrid architecture with intelligent on-premise caching and cloud-native object storage and archive in AWS, delivered as a fully managed service with multi-tier data lifecycle management and robust access control. The NHM currently intends to undertake a single procurement utilising an outcome-based functional requirements approach. The procurement will seek a comprehensive managed service encompassing both the storage platform infrastructure and ongoing operational support, with the supplier assuming responsibility for 24/7 monitoring, capacity planning, security patching, backup and disaster recovery, and service del…
Official publications
- FTS · 081263-2025 · 9 December 2025
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