Glasgow has awarded a £44.9 million contract to DataVita to remodel and keep the council’s core digital infrastructure, together with the compute and storage providers that underpin day-to-day public providers.
The preliminary time period runs for 5 years and 9 months and started on October 8, 2025. The contract contains extension choices and, if taken to its most permitted length of greater than 10 years, the entire worth is projected at between £80 million and £110 million.
The deal will see DataVita ship providers from its Tier III-certified information centres in Scotland, overlaying main and catastrophe restoration environments, administration of bodily and digital servers, and scalable storage. The scope additionally contains backup programs designed to supply extra safety, together with immutable copies.
DataVita may also combine with the council’s Service Integration and Administration (SIAM) perform, as Glasgow strikes in direction of a multi-source strategy for IT supply, with a number of strategic companions concerned.
For the council, the intention is a extra resilient platform for an more and more complicated ‘digital property’ – and one that may assist a multi-source mannequin for IT supply, quite than counting on a single route for core providers.
Social and financial advantages have additionally been positioned as a part of the contract’s wider impression, with as much as 25 new roles anticipated to be created, together with apprenticeships.
Danny Quinn, Managing Director of DataVita, famous, “We’re extremely proud to be chosen as a strategic accomplice for Glasgow Metropolis Council. We’re targeted on delivering distinctive worth and innovation over the preliminary time period and see this as the beginning of a long-term partnership.
“Our mission is to supply a resilient, safe, and sustainable digital infrastructure that won’t solely meet town’s wants right now but in addition assist its ambitions for the longer term. This award is a testomony to our group’s experience and our dedication to investing in Scotland’s expertise ecosystem.”
Paul Leinster, Chair of the Digital Glasgow Board from Glasgow Metropolis Council, added, “The important providers that we ship to residents and the worth they add to folks’s lives are all the time our first priorities. More and more, although, we depend on a fancy digital property to ship these providers, and this contract will guarantee now we have a safe, resilient platform to assist what’s an extremely various vary of labor.
“DataVita brings confirmed functionality right here in Scotland, and their dedication to renewable, energy-efficient operations aligns with Glasgow’s ambitions for a cleaner, greener metropolis.”
A wider push for digital capability in Scotland
The contract additionally lands at a second when Scotland is making an attempt to show digital infrastructure into an financial progress story – notably as information centres turn out to be more and more tied to AI ambitions and public sector modernisation.
In January, Lanarkshire was named the UK’s newest AI Development Zone, with the UK Authorities backing for enlargement round DataVita’s campus within the space, and a supply partnership with CoreWeave.
The plans for the Lanarkshire zone are anticipated to incorporate 100MW of AI-ready information centre capability, greater than 1GW of renewable power infrastructure linked through non-public wire, and adjoining ‘innovation parks’ geared toward attracting compute-hungry industries.
DataVita already has an array of different information centres positioned round Scotland, with one positioned within the coronary heart of Glasgow’s enterprise district and Worldwide Monetary Providers District, whereas the opposite is positioned round 11 miles to the east of town. The agency payments itself as ‘the UK’s most sustainable information centre supplier’, which has confirmed essential to gaining public and native authorities backing in Scotland. In reality, simply final week, a deliberate information centre was rejected by Edinburgh Metropolis Council as a result of it couldn’t showcase its ‘inexperienced’ credentials.
