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OpenStage · tender

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Microsoft Cloud Services Provider and Support Services

IT ServicesCPV 72222300
Value£13,200,000
Deadline
Published8 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide

£13,200,000 — stated in the notice, including VAT

Who to contact
Procurement@fscs.org.uk
0207 375 8194

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£13.2mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£14.3m

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.

When this comes round again

Financial Services Compensation Scheme has published 13 IT Services notices, about every 5 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around January 2027.

29% of Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

FSCS is seeking to procure a partner to provide Microsoft Azure subscription services under a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) agreement, together with proactive Azure managed services and Cloud Operations support to augment the internal team through a co-managed operating model.

The contract will provide Azure subscription management, 24x7 operational support, Azure platform governance, monitoring and operational support for Azure-connected infrastructure, FinOps, platform security, technical advisory services, and continual service improvement to deliver a secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost effective Azure environment.

The majority of FSCS's critical business systems are hosted in Microsoft Azure.

The successful partner will support the ongoing operation, governance, security, resilience, and cost optimisation of the Azure platform and Azure-connected infrastructure, working collaboratively with FSCS, Microsoft, and other technology partners to maintain a reliable and efficient cloud service.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Software-package-and-information-systems./7233ES2BB8 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7233ES2BB8

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The successful partner will support the ongoing

The successful partner will support the ongoing operation, governance, security, resilience, and cost optimisation of the Azure platform and Azure-connected infrastructure, working collaboratively with FSCS, Microsoft, and other technology partners to maintain a reliable and efficient cloud service.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Microsoft partner statusPlatform & vendor partner status
FSCS is seeking to procure a partner to provide Microsoft Azure subscription services under a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) agreement, together with proactive Azure managed services and Cloud Operations support to augment the internal team through a co-managed operating model.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c615
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
064067-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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