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Software licensing tenders from UK public buyers
Software licensing tenders open now: 0. In the 12 months to 22 October 2026, UK public buyers published 184 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to Academia Limited on 22 Jul 2026.
Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below
Which software licensing tenders are open now?
None with a deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026. The twelve-month record below shows how often they appear.
No stated deadline: 2 tender notices from the last 60 days
These are tender-stage notices whose source gives no deadline and no ended status. They are not counted as open above: check the official record before treating one as live.
- SONI089 – Software Licensing & Buying ServicesSONI Ltd · Published 16 Sep 2026This document outlines the structured process being used by SONI in the selection of suppliers for the provision of Software Licensing & Buying Services. This document provides a description of the services we wish to procure. The purpose of the RFP is to invite detailed proposals from interested pa£68,557,055Estimated value stated in the noticeLive tender · Open
- Waste Management Software Licenses and In Cab TechnologyThe North Yorkshire Council · Published 11 Sep 2026Direct award to Whitespace Work Software Limited via G Cloud 14 for 12 months for Waste Management Software Licenses and In Cab Technology.Value not stated in sourceLive tender · Open
Open notices in the wider subject: Software tenders.
Which buyers publish the most software licensing notices?
UK Research and Innovation, with 11 notices of 184 in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.
Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 184 notices in the window, read 22 October 2026.
How many software licensing notices are published each month?
About 15 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was March 2026, with 26.
32 of the 89 software licensing notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (36%). 0 of the open notices listed above are in it.
Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.
| Stage | Notices |
|---|---|
| Award | 99 |
| Contract | 77 |
| Planning | 4 |
| Tender | 3 |
| Pre-procurement | 1 |
| Stated value | Notices |
|---|---|
| Under £25,000 | 7 |
| £25,000 to £100,000 | 32 |
| £100,000 to £500,000 | 37 |
| £500,000 to £2 million | 4 |
| £2 million or more | 9 |
Who has won software licensing contracts recently?
Softcat PLC won 6 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.
On 22 Jul 2026, OPEN UNIVERSITY(THE) recorded an award to Academia Limited for “Renewal of Estates Management Software Licenses (Planon)”, at a recorded value of £298,155.
Read the award notice. Legacy award record; supplier allocation and signed-contract status unverified
| Supplier | Award notices won |
|---|---|
| Softcat PLC | 6 |
| Akhter Computers Limited | 4 |
| Phoenix Software Limited | 4 |
| Phoenix Software Ltd | 4 |
| Softcat plc | 4 |
| Academia Limited | 3 |
| Bytes Software Services Limited | 2 |
| CDW Limited | 2 |
What counts as software licensing tenders here?
Licences, subscriptions and renewals for named third-party software products bought from a supplier that is not the product's publisher, meaning a reseller or licensing partner, or a call-off of product licences under a multi-supplier technology products or software framework. A product bought directly from its publisher, or through a competition that chooses a product for a stated function, is classified by its function only, and so is a notice that names one product without saying who supplies it; a support service with response times or specialist days for a named product is it-product-support-and-maintenance. A named product bought through a reseller or licensing partner takes this node and the node for the product's function: both labels, not one.
Classified
The notice’s recorded classification (proposed by a model, each label checked by Jev) accepted this catalogue subject: software licensing and reselling. Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so none appear here yet.
Matched by text
The title contains one of: software licensing, software licences, software licenses, licence renewal. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.
Open the official notice
Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.Check the dates
Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.Check the route to market
A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.Look at who won before
The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.
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Nothing open today
The hub refreshes daily; the twelve-month record below shows how often these notices appear.UK Research and Innovation published 11 notices
The most of any buyer here, out of 184 in the last 12 months.Softcat PLC won 6 awards
The most of any supplier in the 176 award and contract notices read for this hub.About 15 notices a month
Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 184 in the 12-month window.
Questions about this page
Short answers, with the figures read for this page.
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Where else should you look?
Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.
Sources and method
- Read at
- 22 October 2026, regenerated daily
- Window
- 22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, by publication date
- Classification
- Not yet published to public pages
- Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so every notice here is matched by text.
- A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
- Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
- Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
- UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.
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