In Shanghai’s Putuo district, the clearest new development is not an operating data centre but a contract award. On 22 September 2026, the People’s Bank of China procurement site published a winning-bid notice for technical consulting on the 人民银行上海同城数据中心建设项目, naming 中国电子工程设计院股份有限公司 as the winner at RMB 2,245,000 including tax. The same notice states a service period of 17 months from contract signing, with possible adjustment according to 发改委窗口指导. That is concrete evidence of active procurement for the project, but not of construction completion or operation. 22 September award notice
The award sits on top of an earlier open tender published on 21 August 2026. That tender named 金电云（上海）数字科技有限公司 as the tendering entity and 中化商务有限公司 as the tender agent, listed self-raised funds as the funding source, and set both the budget and the maximum price at RMB 2.53 million for one technical-consulting package classified as other information-technology consulting services. It also placed implementation at 1581 Zhenguang Road in Putuo district. The procurement record therefore identifies a real site and a defined consulting package, while still stopping short of a signed-date or build-status update. 21 August tender notice
A separate 12 June 2026 tender on the same procurement site provides the most detailed physical outline. For 上海同城数据中心建设项目全过程咨询（项目管理及造价咨询服务）项目, again under 金电云（上海）数字科技有限公司, the notice described upgrades to business and auxiliary buildings and part of the outdoor area at the same Zhenguang Road address. It gave a planned building area of about 13,240 square metres, a planned total investment of about RMB 180 million, and a planned scale of 659 racks: 598 general-compute racks at 6kW and 61 intelligent-compute racks at 25kW. Because that June title does not include “People’s Bank of China”, the cautious reading is that it is related evidence on the same named Shanghai same-city project and address, not standalone proof of the final institutional structure. 12 June全过程咨询 tender
Taken together, the June, August and September records show a project moving through consulting procurement rather than routine maintenance. That inference rests on the combination of a named construction project, a specific Shanghai address, planned building works, rack counts, a project-management and cost-consulting tender in June, and a technical-consulting award in September. What these documents add for readers is a procurement trace of a substantial build with named suppliers and prices, not an official claim that new computing capacity is already online.
The limits of the record are just as important. None of the three notices provides a contract-signing date for the technical-consulting award, so the 17-month service period cannot be converted into a completion date as of 27 September 2026. None confirms construction start, commissioning, or production use. None identifies which payment, currency or other central-bank systems would be housed there. The term 同城 indicates a same-city site in Shanghai, but the notices do not define the architecture beyond that name.
For readers tracking China’s financial and digital infrastructure, the strongest conclusion is therefore narrower than the project name may suggest. A central-bank procurement channel is now showing a Shanghai data-centre project with self-raised funding, a June consulting tender that outlines scale and investment, an August technical-consulting tender capped at RMB 2.53 million, and a September technical-consulting award at RMB 2.245 million. That is evidence of movement from tendering to supplier selection. It is not, on the present record, evidence that the facility has been built, energised or put into service.
