Cloud Backup & Cyber Recovery Solution

What the buyer is asking for

Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council (TMBC) is seeking to procure a cloud‐based enterprise backup and cyber recovery solution to protect its critical Azure, identity, application, database workloads and small Hyper-V Data Centre. The solution must provide comprehensive data protection, ransomware resilience, and assured recovery capability aligned to the NCSC, UK public sector cyber best practice and the Council’s business continuity and disaster recovery objectives. Indicative Dates & Timeline for Procurement Tender release: 2nd September 2026 Deadline for clarifications: 12:00pm 30th September 2026 Deadline for submission of completed tenders: 12:00pm 7th October 2026 Evaluation: w/c 12th October 2026 Appointment of contractor: w/c 26th October 2026 For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-West-Malling:-IT-services:-consulting%2C-software-development%2C-Internet-and-support./5GSJK9QT9N To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/5GSJK9QT9N

How this is scored

Published by the buyer. A winning response is written to these weightings, not to the question.

• 60%costCriterion 1Cost
• 40%qualityCriterion 2Quality

How contested is this?

Buyers publish how many bids they received. Across 206 comparable procurements we can tell you the typical field size, how often one of these goes uncontested, and whether the buyer awards on price or on quality.

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London

1. Tender notice published19 days ago

   2 Sept 2026, 15:09 BST
2. Clarification questions byin 8 days

   30 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
3. Submission deadlinein 15 days

   7 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
4. Award decision expected byin 39 days

   30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

Commercial outcome and contract awards

Nothing awarded yet

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

1. Tender notice2 Sept 2026, 15:09 BST083128-2026

Documents

• Tender notice on Find a Tender