A design-services tender published on 10 October for the 人民银行上海同城数据中心建设项目 on the People’s Bank of China procurement portal gives the clearest public project description yet for a planned retrofit at 1581 Zhenguang Road in Putuo District, Shanghai. The notice, issued by 金电云（上海）数字科技有限公司, states total investment of 17,600万元, including 15,108.47万元 in provisional construction-and-installation costs, for converting an existing park business building plus related auxiliary and outdoor areas into a data centre of about 13,240 square metres with about 650 computing cabinets. It also caps the design contract at 438.64万元. Design tender, 10 Oct. 2026
What changed is not proof of a build start but the level of project detail in a current procurement step. Earlier records on the same portal showed a 12 June tender for whole-process consulting and cost consulting, describing the same address, roughly 13,240 square metres and about 1.8亿元 of total investment, with a planned 659 cabinets split between 598 6kW general-computing cabinets and 61 25kW intelligent-computing cabinets. A 21 July result notice then named 上海建科工程咨询有限公司 as winner of that consulting contract at 2,362,172 yuan, while a 21 August tender sought separate technical consulting services for 253万元 and said funding would be self-raised. June tender July result August tender
That sequence matters because it places the October notice in procurement rather than operations. The design notice still describes bidding, not a signed design contract: documents were available from 11 October to 16 October and bids were due on 2 November 2026, while the notice’s 50-day design period and 420-day construction period are stated schedules, not evidence that either stage has begun. Design tender, 10 Oct. 2026 The earlier August technical-consulting notice set 11 September 2026 for bid opening, but the source set retrieved for this draft does not include any award from that competition. August tender The July result notice proves only one consulting package was awarded. It does not show a works contract, financing drawdown or commissioning. July result
The October tender also sharpens, but does not settle, questions about scale. Its 17,600万元 figure is more specific than June’s rounded “about 1.8亿元,” which suggests the project has moved from an early planning estimate into a more procurement-ready budget description. June tender Design tender, 10 Oct. 2026 But the cabinet count is less exact: about 650 in October versus 659 in June. Those numbers are close enough to indicate the same project, yet these records do not explain whether the change reflects rounding, redesign or a different way of presenting capacity. June tender Design tender, 10 Oct. 2026
For Shanghai suppliers, the immediate commercial consequence is narrower than a headline investment total implies. The live competition evidenced by the October record is for design services on a retrofit of an existing building, not for civil works or server-hall equipment. Design tender, 10 Oct. 2026 The June and July consulting documents similarly concern project management, cost control and related advisory tasks, not delivery of cabinets, cooling systems or electrical gear. June tender July result Analysis: the public record now supports a stronger case that preparatory procurement is advancing, but not a claim that construction demand has already reached contractors or hardware vendors.
For readers tracking China’s financial infrastructure, that distinction is the story. Between 12 June and 10 October 2026, the portal shows a consulting tender, a consulting award, a technical-consulting tender and now a design tender for the same Putuo site. June tender July result August tender Design tender, 10 Oct. 2026 As of 15 October 2026, the strongest evidenced conclusion is that the Shanghai same-city data-centre project has become more legible on paper, not that it has moved visibly into construction or operation.
