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Published 11 Dec 2025, 13:43 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Microsoft Office 365 Licenses

Official notice

Authority: Victoria and Albert Museum (Central government)

Direct award
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: London (UKI)
Awarded value£347,878published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 11 Dec 2025no call for competition
Awarded to Microsoft Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We have renewed our Office 365 Subscription Agreement with Microsoft for essential back-office software that is critical to our operations. This includes:

  • Office software suite (word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, project planning, process mapping etc.)
  • Telephony, conferencing and webcasting
  • Cloud based document management and intranet hosting
  • User and device security and compliance functionality

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: London
72200000 Software programming and consultancy services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
11 Dec 2025, 13:43 GMT
Last source update
13 Jan 2026, 12:30 GMT
Authority reference
VA/CON/F25/52
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-002628
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f3dd Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Technical Reasons; Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
Published justification

As set out in the related Transparency Notice

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

22 Dec 2025 → 13 Jan 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Standstill ends304 days ago
    22 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
  2. Notice published282 days ago
    13 Jan 2026, 12:30 GMT

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Dec 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    11 Dec 2025, 13:43 GMT
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    11 Dec 2025, 17:13 GMT
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    23 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    13 Jan 2026, 12:30 GMT
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £347,8781 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 23 Dec 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Microsoft Ltd1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2028Options: Option to flex number of users (and corresponding prices) up and down at the anniversary of the contract start date.£347,87811 Dec 2025Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 1 · Microsoft Ltd

    Signed
    23 Dec 2025
    Value
    £347,878
    Period
    1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2028
    Status
    active
    Options
    Option to flex number of users (and corresponding prices) up and down at the anniversary of the contract start date.

    No agreed KPIs: Contract value below the threshold

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Victoria and Albert Museum

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PQLN-4536-WVGN Cromwell Road, London, London, SW7 2RLContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • MICROSOFT LIMITEDAwarded supplierGB-COH: 01624297GB-PPON: PGYN-4242-JRRY Microsoft Campus, Reading, South East, RG6 1WGContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender