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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Office for Students

Design, Implementation and Support Services: Microsoft Azure, Data, Power Platform and Office 365

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£2.0m
Awarded15 Mar 2024
Published27 Mar 2024
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£2.0mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Office for Students have been transitioning legacy technology to our Microsoft Power Platform Technology, Dynamics 365 CRM, Azure and cloud technologies and associated 3rd party software running in this cloud environment since 2020 and continue to have a wide array of programmes and projects in our IT programme portfolio.

We seek a Microsoft Gold partner compliant with ISO27001 and ISO 9001 standards, that will be able to provide resources and expertise for the timely delivery of our ongoing and future projects, and enhance our in-house capability in the following areas: •project management •business analysis •data analysis •data and solution architecture •business application development •quality assurance and testing •network/infrastructure management •routine and ad-hoc maintenance services for smooth transition of projects from delivery into operations and beyond •ITIL4 driven process development

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3 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ISO 27001 (information security)Standards you certify to
We seek a Microsoft Gold partner compliant with ISO27001 and ISO 9001 standards, that will be able to provide resources and expertise for the timely delivery of our ongoing and future projects, and enhance our in-house capability in the following areas:
ISO 9001 (quality management)Standards you certify to
We seek a Microsoft Gold partner compliant with ISO27001 and ISO 9001 standards, that will be able to provide resources and expertise for the timely delivery of our ongoing and future projects, and enhance our in-house capability in the following areas:
Microsoft partner statusPlatform & vendor partner status
We seek a Microsoft Gold partner compliant with ISO27001 and ISO 9001 standards, that will be able to provide resources and expertise for the timely delivery of our ongoing and future projects, and enhance our in-house capability in the following areas:

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Stage
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Source
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