Vodafone awarded data center migration contract for UK NHS Trust
UK-based IT service provider CDW Ltd. has been awarded a £25 million ($33.2m) colocation contract by Coventry University.
Elsewhere in the UK, Vodafone has been awarded a data center migration contract by the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
A contract award notice from Coventry University was published on August 4 for the "strategic infrastructure and colocation equipment and services" tender. The contract will last for five years, and is subject to renewal with a 5+5 contract term.
The contract was set to begin in May 2025, and should it run for the full five years plus five renewal years, it would be valued at £25m.
The original tender notice stated that the university was seeking an "exclusive infrastructure and technical services partner " to handle the "co-design, implementation, and ongoing co-hosting of IT infrastructure."
This includes: colocation data center services; servers, storage, and networking hardware; cloud integration services; disaster recovery; and further services.
Details about Coventry University's data center footprint are sparse, but a Device42 case study suggests that the university has at least one self-operated data center.
The university also has an HPC cluster dubbed SULIS, which consists of 25,216 AMD Epyc compute cores configured as 167 dual-processor CPU compute nodes plus 30 nodes equipped with three Nvidia A100 40GB GPUs.
CDW was founded in 1984 and provides technology to a variety of sectors, including government, education, healthcare, and businesses in the UK and internationally. The company offers colocation services from two data centers in the UK, located in Redhill and Northampton.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust selects Vodafone for data center migration
Another contract award notice, also published on August 4, sees Vodafone winning a £2.3 million ($3.06m) data center migration contract from a local NHS Trust.
The contract will see Vodafone assisting the Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust with the "safe migration" of data to two new data centers and providing the necessary networking between the data centers and NHS sites in Devon.
A separate contract award notice from July 2025 shows that the data centers in question are operated by Crown Hosting Data Centres. Crown Hosting - a joint venture between the UK government's Cabinet Office and Ark Data Centres - has two main data center locations: Corsham in Wiltshire and Cody Park in Farnborough, both located in the south of the country.
The data center contract with Crown Hosting is valued at a little more than £900,000 ($1.19m), though its duration is not listed.
