Official UK procurement notice
Microsoft Licensing Solutions Partner Services
Authority: The Health and Care Professions Council (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Tenderer must be fully accredited with Microsoft as a licencing partner. They must be able to demonstrate a strong track record and expert knowledge of supporting public sector organisations in renewing and managing their Microsoft ESA to secure best value and a strong return on investment.
The Tenderer must be able to demonstrate how they add value to HCPC over and above ensuring licencing compliance in the following areas:
LSP services included within the cost of the ESA that would enable HCPC to get best value and maximum return on its investment.
Additional services that are chargeable, but which the Tenderer would seeks to secure funding through other channels to minimise the additional cost to HCPC.
CPV: License management software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£1,000,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality: 60%
- Cost: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: - Quality and strategic relevance of proposed licence solution - LSP Services offering - Additional Services offering
- Cost: - Cost of Baseline Scenario - Cost of Recommended Scenario
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Sept 2025, 14:41 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Sept 2025, 14:41 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Oct 2025
- Authority reference
HCPC/TRN/2025/36- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-056610- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059a68Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 15 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
15 Sept 2025 → 1 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published15 Sept 2025, 14:41 BST
- Submission deadline372 days ago15 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Award decision expected by357 days ago30 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts295 days ago1 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published15 Sept 2025, 14:41 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender