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The Windsor Forest Colleges Group

CA17074 - Windsor Forest Colleges Group Software Licence Resellers Agreement for Colleges

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£629,371
Awarded27 Feb 2026
Published2 Mar 2026
RegionUK-wide

£629,371 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£629ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This tender is for the supply of software licenses via resellers to cover (Windows, Adobe, VMware and other miscellaneous) software sold via resellers but to also accommodate deals that may be in place directly with manufacturers.

Institutions purchase much of their software from resellers and it is expected that Framework resellers will provide added value services.

The Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) awards and manages framework agreements for the higher education sector and is acting as lead organisation on behalf of its members and also for members of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC), the Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW), Advanced Procurement for universities and Colleges Ltd (APUC) and Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC).

A full list of the participating Consortia members is available on the Consortiawebsite To access this competition: Registered: Login to https://suppliers.multiquote.com and view the opportunity CA17074.

Not registered: Visit https://suppliers.multiquote.com then register and quote CA17074 as the reason for registration.

Any queries please contact MultiQuote on 0151 482 9230.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This tender is for the supply

This tender is for the supply of software licenses via resellers to cover (Windows, Adobe, VMware and other miscellaneous) software sold via resellers but to also accommodate deals that may be in place directly with manufacturers.

02

Institutions purchase much of their software from

Institutions purchase much of their software from resellers and it is expected that Framework resellers will provide added value services.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

VMware partner statusPlatform & vendor partner status
This tender is for the supply of software licenses via resellers to cover (Windows, Adobe, VMware and other miscellaneous) software sold via resellers but to also accommodate deals that may be in place directly with manufacturers.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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