British pension fund Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is looking for a data center provider.

A preliminary market engagement notice published on June 18, 2025 shows that Border to Coast, which manages local government pensions, “intends to appoint a partner organisation to support core capabilities necessary to manage its existing infrastructure and achieve its future ICT objectives.”

An unnamed managed service provider is currently responsible for the pension fund’s IT services. The existing contract is set to expire in 2026, and the new provider will be contracted for four years from May 2026 to May 2030, which can then be extended for another four years until May 2034.

The contract is estimated to be worth £8.4m ($11m).

The tender also states that it conducted meetings with four MSPs in March 2025 for “soft market testing,” covering topics including user support services delivery models, cybersecurity, cloud & data center services, data management, and a services roadmap for 2026 onwards.

The deadline to engage with the notice is 30 July, 2025. The estimated publication of the actual tender is the subsequent day.

As part of the Local Government Pension Scheme, which is a pension scheme for public sector workers, Border to Coast is one of eight ‘pooled’ pension funds. Based in Leeds, the fund was established in 2018 and manages more than 1.1m members’ worth of pensions across local governments in England.

The fund recently launched a £2.6bn ($3.5bn) global equity index fund, which will be run by BlackRock.