Virtual Servers

A Contract Award Notice
by NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

Source: Find a Tender
Type: Contract (Supply)
Duration: not specified
Value: £551K

Sector: TECHNOLOGY
Published: 21 Nov 2025
Delivery: not specified
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

Kelvin Hall, Glasgow

Geochart for 2 buyers and 1 suppliers

2 buyers

National Library of Scotland Edinburgh

1 supplier

XMA Nottingham

Description

Supply of virtual servers hosting the Nutanix Solution to augment an existing virtual server environment.

Total Quantity or Scope

This Procurement was carried out via a Non-Competitive Action (NCA) for technical (integration) reasons.

Award Detail

1	XMA (Nottingham) Reference: 2025.26.049 Num offers: 1 Value: £551,000

Award Criteria

Quality	100.0
PRICE	_

CPV Codes

48820000 - Servers
48822000 - Computer servers

Indicators

Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

The Library has an existing contract with XMA (contract number 2023.24.049) for the provision of virtual servers hosting the Nutanix Solution. This contract’s scope is scalable to allow the purchase of further servers and associated licenses / support, in anticipation of the Library making use of this pending the outcome of a cloud migration review. The expectation was that most of the Library’s new virtual storage needs would be covered by the move to the cloud. However, on concluding the review, the Library has found that such a move at the scale required would be prohibitively expensive and has therefore ruled it out. This has resulted in the unforeseeable scale at which the Library now has to extend the on-premise virtual server environment.