Computer-related services

Tender description

UK Biobank is an international resource for health research, offering access to researchers seeking to understand the determinants of disease. Over the next 5 years, based on current scientific programmes, the UK Biobank resource will grow to approximately 15 Petabytes of data. UK Biobank researchers have previously downloaded data for analysis within their own environment. The increasing scale of the data requires a new approach to data storage and access that allows researchers to bring their analyses to the data through implementation of a managed informatics platform for data access and analysis. UK Biobank is seeking a supplier that can offer a managed service for the provision of an informatics platform to provide access to, and analysis of, UK Biobank data by its registered researcher community. Full details of the services required are included within the specification. This specification sets out UK Biobank’s requirements for the initial provision of such a platform, including: — technical requirements for Platform functionality, — implementation approach and testing; and — service management and support. UK Biobank is seeking a supplier that can provide such a platform as a managed service with responsibility for all aspects of implementation and ongoing operational management. The contract will start in May 2020.