- Type
- award, contract
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Ref. number
- 039250-2026
- Estimated value
- 248,000 GBP
Rack space and hosting of IWC ICT equipment and services provided by Wightfibre, for our resilient secondary data centre which is currently provided by the NHS Trust at St
Mary's Hospital.
Currently the Isle of Wight Cou…
ncil's second datacentre is located at St Mary's Hospital, Newport, IW where the local NHS Trust provides rack space, cooling and power facilities. This agreement was originally cost neutral and a mutual agreement between both
organisations to utilise each other's datacentres for resiliency. The NHS
had a change of strategy and did not want to pursue this and therefore started to charge the IWC for the service. This is now only in place until 31st July 2026.
Following a thorough review, it has been confirmed that there are currently n