How it is bought · all categories

Software Licensing & Reselling

Licence purchase, renewal and reseller agreements for packaged software.

How often does the buyer go back?

26.7%

anyone already on the roster

9.4%

the previous winner specifically

Measured across 1,997 repeat award events at 337 buyers. The incumbent isn’t the previous supplier — it’s the roster.

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TENDER FOR EMAIL FILTERING
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council · closes 29 Jul
Elector8 Electoral Management System
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL · £128k · closes 30 Jul
IT Tender
Biggleswade Town Council · £100k · closes 31 Jul
CA18208 - Financial Software
City of Bristol College · £970k · closes 3 Aug
Student Journey Technical Assurance, Data Archiving And Legacy Admissions Support Services
University of South Wales · £380k · closes 4 Aug
Financial Software
City of Bristol College · £970k · closes 6 Aug
MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT
RADIUS HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED · £840k · closes 6 Aug
Unified Communications
HAFOD HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED · £882k · closes 10 Aug

Who already holds it

Softcat PLC UK261 awards · 128 buyers · last 2026-07-21
PHOENIX SOFTWARE LTD233 awards · 170 buyers · last 2026-07-22
Insight Direct (UK)137 awards · 87 buyers · last 2026-07-17
BYTES SOFTWARE SERVICES LTD129 awards · 77 buyers · last 2026-06-30
Academia UK Limited105 awards · 33 buyers · last 2026-07-22
CDW UK LTD83 awards · 54 buyers · last 2026-07-22
Microsoft66 awards · 53 buyers · last 2026-07-14
BOXXE LTD59 awards · 34 buyers · last 2026-07-02

Who broke in recently

MSoft eSolutions Limitedfirst seen 2026-07-23 · 1 award
YORCARD LIMITEDfirst seen 2026-07-21 · 1 award
NServiceBus LTDfirst seen 2026-07-20 · 1 award
AP16 LIMITEDfirst seen 2026-07-20 · 1 award
CLOUD 21 LIMITEDfirst seen 2026-07-17 · 1 award
DB GROUP LIMITEDfirst seen 2026-07-16 · 1 award
EMIS (EGTON MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS LTD)first seen 2026-07-16 · 1 award
MITEQ LIMITEDfirst seen 2026-07-13 · 1 award

“First seen” means the first appearance under this name in published awards — not necessarily a new company. Holcim is Aggregate Industries; AtkinsRéalis is Atkins. We show this as a list and never as a trend: debut counts fall every year by construction, because the pool of never-before-seen suppliers depletes as the corpus grows. A supplier who entered last month also cannot yet show three buyers.

Why a tender lands in this category

Tier 2 · matches \y(licen[cs]e|licen[cs]ing|reseller|enterprise agreement|subscription renewal|software renewal)
Tier 2 · matches \y(microsoft|adobe|autodesk|talis|manage ?engine)
Tier 2 · matches \y(support (and|&) maintenance|maintenance (and|&) support|annual subscription|software subscription|renewal of)

Every label traces to one of these rows. Challenge any of it — the awards behind every figure are one click away.

How these numbers are made — and where they are weak

We resolve supplier identity from published award data using legal-suffix rules and a seeded alias list. We have not verified group structure, joint ventures or delivery partners against Companies House, so a group's true share may be understated. Buyer names are merged where the slug agrees — we cannot tell whether “Hackney Limited” is a council trading arm or an unrelated company, and we do not guess. Our award history begins in June 2015; 0.9% of dated awards predate it, so a “first win” is the first we can observe. Figures are shown with their method and the underlying awards are always one click away.

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