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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service

vFire additional licences and associated maintenance and support

ValueValue not published
Awarded
Published14 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
ALEMBA LIMITED

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

Who to contact
keli.mcteague@hscni.net

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

Alemba are the Global owner of the vFire IT Service Management (ITSM) toolset product and as such are the sole official provider for this product.

BSO ITS has grown in recent years and vFire is the main tool used by all BSO ITS staff to deliver IT Services to end users within the agreed SLA.

Use of vFire\ASM toolset will mean that the provision of IT Services can be monitored and reviewed to ensure that HSC customer SLA targets are met via use of the vFire ITSM toolset.​ BSO ITS staff levels have grown in recent years and vFire is the main tool used by all BSO ITS staff to deliver IT Services to end users within the agreed SLA.

There has been no major investment by BSO ITS in terms of licences despite staff levels increasing by over 100% since preCOVID. ​ £1,974,000.00 has been previously Direct Awarded to Alemba for Vfire Licences and Support.

It is our intention to complete a further Direct Award to the value of £105,000.00 (exclusive of vat).

We wish to review this on an annual basis until 31st March 2029.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

BSO ITS has grown in recent years

BSO ITS has grown in recent years and vFire is the main tool used by all BSO ITS staff to deliver IT Services to end users within the agreed SLA.

02

Use of vFire\ASM toolset will mean

Use of vFire\ASM toolset will mean that the provision of IT Services can be monitored and reviewed to ensure that HSC customer SLA targets are met via use of the vFire ITSM toolset.​.

03

BSO ITS staff levels have grown in

BSO ITS staff levels have grown in recent years and vFire is the main tool used by all BSO ITS staff to deliver IT Services to end users within the agreed SLA.

04

£1,974,000.00 has been previously Direct Awarded

£1,974,000.00 has been previously Direct Awarded to Alemba for Vfire Licences and Support.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0547bf
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
048935-2025
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