The UK's Home Office has put out a "preliminary market engagement notice" looking for a data center management partner.

As reported by Public Technology, the notice estimates that the contract could be worth £102 million ($138.6m) and would span three years.

The Home Office, the UK's interior ministry responsible for public safety and policing, is seeking a "hosting capability supplier" which will be required to provide "24/7 operational support to the Home Office's data centers, including maintenance, engineering, and service management."

Further competition will be run under the Crown Commercial Services' Technology Services 4 framework's Lot 6, which is for "Major Technology Services Transformation Programmes."

Currently, there are 67 suppliers under that lot, including Atos, Accenture, Capgemini, and Computacenter.

Suppliers hoping to win the Home Office contract have until 3 April to participate.

Details about the Home Office's data center footprint have not been shared. In June 2024, the department revealed it was seeking to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London, under a $12.7m contract.

The Home Office previously signed a cloud computing contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2023, worth $568.64m at the time.