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Preliminary Market Engagement - Microsoft Cloud Service Provider and Support

Information technology services
Software package and information systems
Location not published
Published value
£10,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Financial Services Compensation Scheme: "Preliminary Market Engagement - Microsoft Cloud Service Provider and Support". Published status: planning. Published value: £10,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityFinancial Services Compensation SchemeScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£10,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Financial Services Compensation Scheme
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Published history for Financial Services Compensation Scheme. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
Not availableNo published reports
Bid counts are not published for this buyer
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 0 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityFinancial Services Compensation Scheme
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
Last source update12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationInformation technology services, Software package and information systems
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06690f
What is being bought
FSCS is seeking information in relation to procuring a Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) with Cloud Operations Support for Azure tenants. FSCS is seeking to procure a partner to provide all Azure subscription services under a CSP agreement and provide Cloud Operations Support to augment the internal team. Ahead of the procurement, FSCS would like to understand market insights and have drafted a number of questions within our preliminary market engagement document which can be obtained within Delta. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Software-package-and-information-systems./P692379SWU To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/P692379SWU
What changed
From the official release history
  1. tender value changed
    12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
  2. Status changed to planning
    12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    12 Mar 2026, 20:24 GMT
  3. engagement
    31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    This is a Request for Information and to engage in Preliminary Market Engagement. Please note the contract value and contract duration are only estimated. For clarity the proposed new contract will be for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further year with the estimated proposed contract value being for all 4 years.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PNMP-1789-RLBG
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  • Financial Services Compensation Scheme
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PNMP-1789-RLBG
    5th Floor, The St Botolph Building, 138-139 Houndsditch, London, UKI31, EC3A 7AW, GB
    Procurement@fscs.org.uk
    0207 375 8194
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published