# Mini Competition for RDS Live Data Storage Expansion

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
- Contract winner: [CDW Limited](/contract-winners/cdw/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £799,972
- Tender value: £799,972
- Award date: 20 April 2017
- Published: 24 April 2017
- Contract start: 24 April 2017
- Contract end: 28 June 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 4e161e89-a948-4a2a-8dd5-34a8e27ac6a1-143449
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d67efbd0-6f19-4156-8e21-f475b13a1326

## Description

UCL Research Data Services has a requirement for a high performance, scalable, sustainable, resilient research data storage infrastructure for use for data in the active phase of a research project's data lifecycle\. It is intended to work across all academic disciplines, and as such the infrastructure must be able to transfer data efficiently to and from multiple data sources using transfer protocols appropriate to that source\. Such sources would include High Performance Computing \(HPC\) services, experimental sources, and desktop/workstation access\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4e161e89-a948-4a2a-8dd5-34a8e27ac6a1-143449)