How to win: Hosting Capability Supplier Procurement

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The Home Office Enterprise Networks & Infrastructure function is preparing an award with competition to procure a Hosting Capability Supplier. The successful supplier will provide a comprehensive 24x7x365 operational support capability, alongside outcome-based engineering, transformation, and service delivery services across the Home Office technology estate. The objective is to establish a simplified and integrated operating model that delivers improved service resilience, enhanced automation, accelerated technology transformation, and a single point of accountability for hosting-related services. The scope of the requirement is expected to include: • Platform services spanning on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments. • Hosting, cloud, network and infrastructure operational support and engineering services. • Legacy infrastructure and application support, including the transformation and modernisation of services to align with future-state technology strategies. • Technology services covering datacentre, platform, storage, backup, virtualisation, operating systems, network infrastructure, cloud services and associated management tooling. The Hosting Capability Supplier will abso

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Home Office scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £183,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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