RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · planning

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)

Software License Resellers Agreement (SLRA)

IT ServicesCPV 48400000
Value£450,000,000
Deadline
Published5 Feb 2024
RegionNationwide

£450,000,000 — stated in the notice.

Who to contact
Mark Lewis
m.r.lewis@reading.ac.uk
+44 1189357081

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£450.0mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£486.0m

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.

When this comes round again

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)'s Software & IT Systems cycle is past due — it ran about every 9 months across 8 notices, and the door is open now. It may re-tender at any time.

38% of Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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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.

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.

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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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043727
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
003691-2024
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