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Microsoft Licensing Solutions Partner Services

Buyer: The Health and Care Professions Council →

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BuyerThe Health and Care Professions Council
StatusClosed
Deadline15 Oct 2025
Value£1,000,000
Published15 Sept 2025

What is being bought

The 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.

Categories

License management software package 48218000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£1,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality — - Quality and strategic relevance of proposed licence solution - LSP Services offering - Additional Services offering (60%)
Cost — - Cost of Baseline Scenario - Cost of Recommended Scenario (40%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1License management software packageNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is License management software package (48218000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 483,4181 median · 6.1 average (1,133 of 3,418 with a bid count)1.5 average (1,293 of 3,418 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)2693 median · 3 average (1 of 269 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 269 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policynotAllowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-059a68
Latest release ID056610-2025
Latest release timestampMon Sep 15 2025 13:41:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/056610-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-15T17:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-30T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailsgeoff.kirk@hcpc-uk.org rick.welsby@hcpc-uk.org tarek.hussien@hcpc-uk.org
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
15 Sept 2025tender056610-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
15 Sept 2025 · 056610-2025 · tender
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